Prince Charles and wife Camilla on Corfu vacations at Rothschild Villa
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Prince Charles and wife Camilla on Corfu vacations at Rothschild Villa
July 27, 2017
Charles, Prince of Wales, and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, arrived at the airport of Corfu Wednesday afternoon for their summer vacations. Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall will enjoy the blue Ionian Sea, the clean fresh air and an unknown number of quite days.
Prince Charles, wife Camilla and their entourage were transferred to Mayor’s Skala where they got on board of a speedboat under UK flag.
Where did they go to?
According to amna.gr, the speedboat carrying the royal couple docked in the small harbour of Kerasia in the north-east of Corfu.
In Kerasia is the luxury Rothschild Villa located. The royal couple will spend for one more time their summer vacations there.
The villa with its unique architecture has dominated the island for more than 40 years, within a vast estate in Kerasia that is filled with ancient pines, waterfalls and rich vegetation.
Security measures since the royal couple’s arrival are now extremely tight, with both security personnel and trained dogs guarding the grounds.
The villa has often hosted both royals and celebrities, while it was a favourite summer retreat for Princess Diana.
Kerasia is 40 km northeast of Corfu town and is considered one of the most beautiful locations on the island, nestling around an impressive beach with white pebbles, lush vegetation and clear blue waters. There is only one traditional taverna in the area, which is a remote and idyllic retreat for all.
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Prince Charles, 68, and Camilla Parker Bowles, 70, were married in 2005.
Local media corfuland.gr has more exclusive pictures from the arrival of the British royal couple.
King Charles' ouija board, death and murder accompanies him
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Al Gore just was in Zurich/Switzerland with his new film.
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Camillagate squidgy tapes
Let's lighten up here - shows actually a very human side to Charles this transcript of his 'squidgy' tape, which as I remember was a reaction to a similar GCHQ style recording released of Diana.
' T H E C A M I L L A G A T E T A P E S '
Full Transcript of a telephone conversation between Prince Charles and
Camilla Parker Bowles the 45 year old wife of a bridadier.
The six minute bedtime conversation is said to be recorded by a scanner user on December 18th 1989. There are also reports that infact the conversation was recorded by MI5 at GCHQ and re-broadcasted several times in the hope a scanner user would record it and leak it to the papers. There is also reports that infact 27 other similar tapes exist in the MI5 vaults.
First published in an Australia Magazine 'New idea' and then followed by press in Germany, America, Italy, Switzerland and Ireland. It was then published in the Daily Sport circulation 210,000 and Kent Today Circulation 34,000.
It was also widely faxed from machine to machine in the House of Commons, Business centres and in the civil service around the U.K including thesecurity services of course.
Finally two major newspapers the Sunday Mirror and Sunday People printed in it full on 17th January 1993 making it available to the millions.
Now it's available to you for no charge, See what you think.
The tape begins a small way though the conversation and lasts six minutes
until Charles hangs the phone up.
http://www.textfiles.com/phreak/camilla.txt
Charles: He was a bit anxious actually
Camilla: Was he?
Charles: He thought he might of gone too far.
Camilla: Ah well.
Charles: Anyway you know that's the sort of thing one has to beware of. And
sort of feel one's way along with - if you know what I mean.
Camilla: Mmmm. You're awfully good feeling your way along.
Charles: Oh Stop! I want to feel my way along you, all over you and up and
down you and in and out...
Camilla: Oh!
Charles: Particularly in and out!
Camilla: Oh. that's just what I need at the moment.
Charles: Is it?
At this point the scanner enthusiast speaks over the couple to record the
date
Scanner Enthusiast: December 18th
Camilla: I know it would revive me. I can't bear a Sunday night without you.
Charles: Oh, God.
Camilla: It's like that programme Start the Week. I can't start the week without you.
Charles: I fill up your tank!
Camilla: Yes, you do
Charles: Then you can cope.
Camilla: Then I'm all right
Charles: What about me? The trouble is I need you several times a week.
Camilla: Mmmm, so do I. I need you all the week. All the time.
Charles: Oh. God. I'll just live inside your trousers or something. It would be
much easier!
Camilla: (laughing) "what are you going to turn into, a pair of knickers?
Both laugh
Camilla: Oh, You're your'e going to come back as a pair of knickers.
Charles: Or, God forbid a Tampax. Just my luck! (Laughs)
Camilla: You are a complete idiot (Laughs) Oh, what a wonderful idea.
Charles: My luck to be chucked down the lavatory and go on and on forever
swirling round on the top, never going down.
Camilla: (Laughing) Oh, Darling!
Charles: Until the next one comes through.
Camilla: Oh, perhaps you could come back as a box.
Charles: What sort of box?
Camilla: A box of Tampax, so you could just keep going.
Charles: That's true.
Camilla: Repeating yourself...(Laughing) Oh, darling I just want you now.
Charles: Do You?
Camilla: Mmmmm
Charles: So do I!
Camilla: Desperately, desperately. Oh, I thought of you so much at Yaraby.
Charles: Did you?
Camilla: Simply mean we couldn't be there together.
Charles: Desperate. If you could be here - I long to ask Nancy sometimes.
Camilla: Why don't you?
Charles: I daren't
Camilla: Because I think she's in love with you.
Charles: Mmm.
Camilla: She'd do anything you asked.
Charles: She'd tell all sorts of people.
Camilla: No, she wouldn't because she'd be much too frightened of what
you might say to her. I think you've got - I'm afraid it's a
terrible thing to say - but I think , you know, those sort of people
do feel very strongly about you. You've got such a hold over her.
Charles: Really?
Camilla: And you're..... I think, as usual, you're underestimating yourself.
Charles: But she might be terribly jealous or something.
Camilla: Oh! (Laughs) Now that's a point! I wonder, she might be, I suppose.
Charles: You never know, do you?
Camilla: No, The little green eyed monster might be lurking inside her. No,
But I mean the thing is your'e so good when people are so flattered
to be taken into your confidence, but I don't know they'd betray
you. You know, real friends.
Charles: Really?
Camilla: I don't (Pause)
Camilla: Gone to sleep?
Charles: No, I'm here.
Camilla: Darling, listen I talked to David tonight again. It might not be
any good.
Charles: Oh, no!!
Camilla: I'll tell you why. He's got these children of one of those Crawley
girls and their nanny staying. He's going. I'm going to ring him
again tomorrow. He's going to try and out them off till Friday. But
as an alternative, perhaps I might ring up Charlie.
Charles: Yes
Camilla: And see if we could do it there. I know he is back on Thursday.
Charles: It's quite a lot further away.
Camilla: Oh, is it?
Charles: Well, I'm just trying to think. coming from Newmarket.
Camilla: Coming from Newmarket to me at that time of night, you could
probably do it in two and three quarters, It takes me three.
Charles: What to go to, Um, Bowood?
Camilla: Northmore.
Charles: To go to Bowood?
Camilla: To go to Bowood would be the same as the same as me really,
wouldn't it?
Charles: I mean to say, you would suggest going to Bowood, uh?
Camilla: No, not at all.
Charles: Which Charlie then?
Camilla: What Charlie do you think I was talking about?
Charles: I didn't know, because I thought you meant.....
Camilla: I've got lots....
Charles: Somebody else.
Camilla: I've got lots of friends called Charlie.
Charles: The other one, Patty's.
Camilla: Oh! Oh!, There! Oh that is further away. They're not....
Charles: They've gone.....
Camilla: I don' know. it's just, you know, just a thought I had,
If it fell through, the other place.
Charles: Oh, Right. What do you do? Go on the M25 then down the M4 is it?
Camilla: Yes, you go, um, and sort of Royston or M11, at that time of night.
Charles: Yes, well, that'll be just after shooting anyway.
Camilla: So it would be, um, you'd miss the worst of the traffic. Because
I'll er.... You see the problem is I've got to be in London
tomorrow night.
Charles: Yes
Camilla: Would you believe it? Because, I don't know what he's doing. He's
shooting down here or something. but, darling, you wouldn't be able
to ring me anyway, would you?
Charles: I might just, I mean, tomorrow night I could have done.
Camilla: Oh Darling, I can't bear it. How could you have done tomorrow night?
Charles: Because I'll be (Yawns) working on the next speech.
Camilla: Oh no, what's the next one?
Charles: A Business in The Community one, rebuilding communities
Camilla: Oh no, when's that for?
Charles: A rather important one for Wednesday.
Camilla: Well at least I'll be behind you.
Charles: I know.
Camilla: Can I have a copy of the one you've just done?
Charles: Yes
Camilla: Can I? um, I would like it.
Charles: OK, I'll try and organize it.
Camilla: Darling
Charles: But I, oh God, when am I going to speak to you?
Camilla: I can't bear it... Umm.......
Charles: Wednesday night?
Camilla: Oh, certainly Wednesday night. I'll be alone, um, Wednesday,
you know, the evening. Or Tuesday. while you're rushing around doing
things I'll be, you know, alone until it reappears.
And early Wednesday morning, I mean, he'll be leaving at half past
eight, quarter past eight. he won't be here Thursday, pray God. Um,
that ambulance strike, it's a terrible thing to say this, I suppose
it won't have come to an end by Thursday,
Charles: It will have done?
Camilla: Well, I mean I hope for everybody's sake it will have done, but I
hope for our sakes it's still going on.
Charles: Why?
Camilla: Well, because if it stops he'll come down here on Thursday night.
Charles: Oh no.
Camilla: Yes, but I don't think it will stop, do you?
Charles: No, neither do I. just our luck.
Camilla: It just would be our luck, I know.
Charles: Then it's bound to.
Camilla: No it won't. You mustn't think like that. You must think positive.
Charles: I'm not very good at that.
Camilla: Well I'm going to. Because if I don't, I'd despair. (Pause)
Hmmm - gone to sleep?
Charles: No, How maddening.
Camilla: I know, Anyway, I mean he's doing his best to change it, David .
But I just thought, you know, I might ask Charlie.
Charles: Did he say anything?
Camilla: No, I hav'nt talked to him.
Charles: You havn't?
Camilla: Well I talked to him briefly, but you know, I just thought I -
I just don't know whether he's got any children at home, that's the
worry.
Charles: Right.
Camilla: Oh, Darling. I think I'll .............
Charles: Pray just Pray.
Camilla: It would be so wonderful to have just one night to set us on our
way, wouldn't it?
Charles: Wouldn't it? To wish you a Happy Christmas.
Camilla: (Indistinct) Happy. Oh, don't let's think about Christmas. I can't
bear it. (Pause) Going to go to sleep ? I think you'd better,
don't you darling?
Charles: (Sleepy) Yes, Darling?
Camilla: Will you ring me when you wake up?
Charles: Yes I will.
Camilla: Before I have these rampaging children around. It's Tom's birthday
tomorrow. (Pause) You all right?
Charles: Mmm. I'm all right.
Camilla: Can I talk to you, I hope, before those rampaging children....
Charles: What time do they come in?
Camilla: Well usually Tom never wakes up at all, but as it's his birthday
tomorrow he might just stagger out of bed. It won't be before half
past eight. (Pause) Night, night, my darling.
Charles: Darling.....
Camilla: I do love you.
Charles: (Sleepily) Before...
Camilla: Before half past eight.
Charles: Try and ring?
Camilla: Yeah, if you can. Love you darling.
Charles: Night, Darling
Camilla: I love you.
Charles: I love you too. I don't want to say goodbye.
Camilla: Well done for doing that. You're a clever old thing.
An awfully good brain lurking there, isn't there? Oh, darling, I
think you ought to give the brain a rest now. Night, Night.
Charles: Night darling, God bless.
Camilla: I do love you and I'm so proud of you.
Charles: Oh, I'm so proud of you.
Camilla: Don't be silly. I've never achieved anything.
Charles: You're greatest achievement is to love me.
Camilla: Oh, darling easier than falling off a chair.
Charles: You suffer all these indignities and tortures and calumnies.
Camilla: Oh, darling don't be so silly I'd suffer anything for you. That's
love. It's the strength of love. Night, night.
Charles: Night darling. Sounds if you're dragging an enormous piece of string
behind you, with hundreds of tin pots and cans attached to it. Night
night, before the battery goes. (Blows kiss) Night.
Camilla: Love you.
Charles: Don't want to say goodbye.
Camilla: Neither do I, but you must get some sleep, Bye.
Charles: Bye, darling.
Camilla: Love you.
Charles: Bye.
Camilla: Hopefully talk to you in the morning.
Charles: Please.
Camilla: Bye, I do love you.
Charles: Night.
Camilla: Night.
Charles: Night.
Camilla: Love you forever
Charles: night.
Camilla: G'bye. bye my darling.
Charles: Night.
Camilla: Night, night.
Charles: Night.
Camilla: Bye bye.
Charles: Going.
Camilla: Gone.
Charles: Going.
Camilla: Gone
Charles: Night.
Camilla: Bye, Press the button.
Charles: Going to press the tit.
Camilla: All right darling, I wish you were pressing mine.
Charles: God, I wish I was, Harder and harder.
Camilla: Oh, darling.
Charles: Night.
Camilla: Night.
Charles: Love you.
Camilla: (Yawning) Love you. Press the tit.
Charles: Adore you. Night.
Camilla: Night.
Charles: Night.
Camilla: (Blows a kiss)
Charles: Night.
Camilla: G'night my darling, Love you.
Charles then finally hangs up the phone....
Well what do you think of all that?
I'll leave you all to make your own minds up...
The above transcript was typed in by Sean one boring Sunday afternoon
on January 17th. The information came from various media sources including Daily Sport, Sunday Mirror, the Sunday people and a fax some one was kind enough to send me.
' T H E C A M I L L A G A T E T A P E S '
Full Transcript of a telephone conversation between Prince Charles and
Camilla Parker Bowles the 45 year old wife of a bridadier.
The six minute bedtime conversation is said to be recorded by a scanner user on December 18th 1989. There are also reports that infact the conversation was recorded by MI5 at GCHQ and re-broadcasted several times in the hope a scanner user would record it and leak it to the papers. There is also reports that infact 27 other similar tapes exist in the MI5 vaults.
First published in an Australia Magazine 'New idea' and then followed by press in Germany, America, Italy, Switzerland and Ireland. It was then published in the Daily Sport circulation 210,000 and Kent Today Circulation 34,000.
It was also widely faxed from machine to machine in the House of Commons, Business centres and in the civil service around the U.K including thesecurity services of course.
Finally two major newspapers the Sunday Mirror and Sunday People printed in it full on 17th January 1993 making it available to the millions.
Now it's available to you for no charge, See what you think.
The tape begins a small way though the conversation and lasts six minutes
until Charles hangs the phone up.
http://www.textfiles.com/phreak/camilla.txt
Charles: He was a bit anxious actually
Camilla: Was he?
Charles: He thought he might of gone too far.
Camilla: Ah well.
Charles: Anyway you know that's the sort of thing one has to beware of. And
sort of feel one's way along with - if you know what I mean.
Camilla: Mmmm. You're awfully good feeling your way along.
Charles: Oh Stop! I want to feel my way along you, all over you and up and
down you and in and out...
Camilla: Oh!
Charles: Particularly in and out!
Camilla: Oh. that's just what I need at the moment.
Charles: Is it?
At this point the scanner enthusiast speaks over the couple to record the
date
Scanner Enthusiast: December 18th
Camilla: I know it would revive me. I can't bear a Sunday night without you.
Charles: Oh, God.
Camilla: It's like that programme Start the Week. I can't start the week without you.
Charles: I fill up your tank!
Camilla: Yes, you do
Charles: Then you can cope.
Camilla: Then I'm all right
Charles: What about me? The trouble is I need you several times a week.
Camilla: Mmmm, so do I. I need you all the week. All the time.
Charles: Oh. God. I'll just live inside your trousers or something. It would be
much easier!
Camilla: (laughing) "what are you going to turn into, a pair of knickers?
Both laugh
Camilla: Oh, You're your'e going to come back as a pair of knickers.
Charles: Or, God forbid a Tampax. Just my luck! (Laughs)
Camilla: You are a complete idiot (Laughs) Oh, what a wonderful idea.
Charles: My luck to be chucked down the lavatory and go on and on forever
swirling round on the top, never going down.
Camilla: (Laughing) Oh, Darling!
Charles: Until the next one comes through.
Camilla: Oh, perhaps you could come back as a box.
Charles: What sort of box?
Camilla: A box of Tampax, so you could just keep going.
Charles: That's true.
Camilla: Repeating yourself...(Laughing) Oh, darling I just want you now.
Charles: Do You?
Camilla: Mmmmm
Charles: So do I!
Camilla: Desperately, desperately. Oh, I thought of you so much at Yaraby.
Charles: Did you?
Camilla: Simply mean we couldn't be there together.
Charles: Desperate. If you could be here - I long to ask Nancy sometimes.
Camilla: Why don't you?
Charles: I daren't
Camilla: Because I think she's in love with you.
Charles: Mmm.
Camilla: She'd do anything you asked.
Charles: She'd tell all sorts of people.
Camilla: No, she wouldn't because she'd be much too frightened of what
you might say to her. I think you've got - I'm afraid it's a
terrible thing to say - but I think , you know, those sort of people
do feel very strongly about you. You've got such a hold over her.
Charles: Really?
Camilla: And you're..... I think, as usual, you're underestimating yourself.
Charles: But she might be terribly jealous or something.
Camilla: Oh! (Laughs) Now that's a point! I wonder, she might be, I suppose.
Charles: You never know, do you?
Camilla: No, The little green eyed monster might be lurking inside her. No,
But I mean the thing is your'e so good when people are so flattered
to be taken into your confidence, but I don't know they'd betray
you. You know, real friends.
Charles: Really?
Camilla: I don't (Pause)
Camilla: Gone to sleep?
Charles: No, I'm here.
Camilla: Darling, listen I talked to David tonight again. It might not be
any good.
Charles: Oh, no!!
Camilla: I'll tell you why. He's got these children of one of those Crawley
girls and their nanny staying. He's going. I'm going to ring him
again tomorrow. He's going to try and out them off till Friday. But
as an alternative, perhaps I might ring up Charlie.
Charles: Yes
Camilla: And see if we could do it there. I know he is back on Thursday.
Charles: It's quite a lot further away.
Camilla: Oh, is it?
Charles: Well, I'm just trying to think. coming from Newmarket.
Camilla: Coming from Newmarket to me at that time of night, you could
probably do it in two and three quarters, It takes me three.
Charles: What to go to, Um, Bowood?
Camilla: Northmore.
Charles: To go to Bowood?
Camilla: To go to Bowood would be the same as the same as me really,
wouldn't it?
Charles: I mean to say, you would suggest going to Bowood, uh?
Camilla: No, not at all.
Charles: Which Charlie then?
Camilla: What Charlie do you think I was talking about?
Charles: I didn't know, because I thought you meant.....
Camilla: I've got lots....
Charles: Somebody else.
Camilla: I've got lots of friends called Charlie.
Charles: The other one, Patty's.
Camilla: Oh! Oh!, There! Oh that is further away. They're not....
Charles: They've gone.....
Camilla: I don' know. it's just, you know, just a thought I had,
If it fell through, the other place.
Charles: Oh, Right. What do you do? Go on the M25 then down the M4 is it?
Camilla: Yes, you go, um, and sort of Royston or M11, at that time of night.
Charles: Yes, well, that'll be just after shooting anyway.
Camilla: So it would be, um, you'd miss the worst of the traffic. Because
I'll er.... You see the problem is I've got to be in London
tomorrow night.
Charles: Yes
Camilla: Would you believe it? Because, I don't know what he's doing. He's
shooting down here or something. but, darling, you wouldn't be able
to ring me anyway, would you?
Charles: I might just, I mean, tomorrow night I could have done.
Camilla: Oh Darling, I can't bear it. How could you have done tomorrow night?
Charles: Because I'll be (Yawns) working on the next speech.
Camilla: Oh no, what's the next one?
Charles: A Business in The Community one, rebuilding communities
Camilla: Oh no, when's that for?
Charles: A rather important one for Wednesday.
Camilla: Well at least I'll be behind you.
Charles: I know.
Camilla: Can I have a copy of the one you've just done?
Charles: Yes
Camilla: Can I? um, I would like it.
Charles: OK, I'll try and organize it.
Camilla: Darling
Charles: But I, oh God, when am I going to speak to you?
Camilla: I can't bear it... Umm.......
Charles: Wednesday night?
Camilla: Oh, certainly Wednesday night. I'll be alone, um, Wednesday,
you know, the evening. Or Tuesday. while you're rushing around doing
things I'll be, you know, alone until it reappears.
And early Wednesday morning, I mean, he'll be leaving at half past
eight, quarter past eight. he won't be here Thursday, pray God. Um,
that ambulance strike, it's a terrible thing to say this, I suppose
it won't have come to an end by Thursday,
Charles: It will have done?
Camilla: Well, I mean I hope for everybody's sake it will have done, but I
hope for our sakes it's still going on.
Charles: Why?
Camilla: Well, because if it stops he'll come down here on Thursday night.
Charles: Oh no.
Camilla: Yes, but I don't think it will stop, do you?
Charles: No, neither do I. just our luck.
Camilla: It just would be our luck, I know.
Charles: Then it's bound to.
Camilla: No it won't. You mustn't think like that. You must think positive.
Charles: I'm not very good at that.
Camilla: Well I'm going to. Because if I don't, I'd despair. (Pause)
Hmmm - gone to sleep?
Charles: No, How maddening.
Camilla: I know, Anyway, I mean he's doing his best to change it, David .
But I just thought, you know, I might ask Charlie.
Charles: Did he say anything?
Camilla: No, I hav'nt talked to him.
Charles: You havn't?
Camilla: Well I talked to him briefly, but you know, I just thought I -
I just don't know whether he's got any children at home, that's the
worry.
Charles: Right.
Camilla: Oh, Darling. I think I'll .............
Charles: Pray just Pray.
Camilla: It would be so wonderful to have just one night to set us on our
way, wouldn't it?
Charles: Wouldn't it? To wish you a Happy Christmas.
Camilla: (Indistinct) Happy. Oh, don't let's think about Christmas. I can't
bear it. (Pause) Going to go to sleep ? I think you'd better,
don't you darling?
Charles: (Sleepy) Yes, Darling?
Camilla: Will you ring me when you wake up?
Charles: Yes I will.
Camilla: Before I have these rampaging children around. It's Tom's birthday
tomorrow. (Pause) You all right?
Charles: Mmm. I'm all right.
Camilla: Can I talk to you, I hope, before those rampaging children....
Charles: What time do they come in?
Camilla: Well usually Tom never wakes up at all, but as it's his birthday
tomorrow he might just stagger out of bed. It won't be before half
past eight. (Pause) Night, night, my darling.
Charles: Darling.....
Camilla: I do love you.
Charles: (Sleepily) Before...
Camilla: Before half past eight.
Charles: Try and ring?
Camilla: Yeah, if you can. Love you darling.
Charles: Night, Darling
Camilla: I love you.
Charles: I love you too. I don't want to say goodbye.
Camilla: Well done for doing that. You're a clever old thing.
An awfully good brain lurking there, isn't there? Oh, darling, I
think you ought to give the brain a rest now. Night, Night.
Charles: Night darling, God bless.
Camilla: I do love you and I'm so proud of you.
Charles: Oh, I'm so proud of you.
Camilla: Don't be silly. I've never achieved anything.
Charles: You're greatest achievement is to love me.
Camilla: Oh, darling easier than falling off a chair.
Charles: You suffer all these indignities and tortures and calumnies.
Camilla: Oh, darling don't be so silly I'd suffer anything for you. That's
love. It's the strength of love. Night, night.
Charles: Night darling. Sounds if you're dragging an enormous piece of string
behind you, with hundreds of tin pots and cans attached to it. Night
night, before the battery goes. (Blows kiss) Night.
Camilla: Love you.
Charles: Don't want to say goodbye.
Camilla: Neither do I, but you must get some sleep, Bye.
Charles: Bye, darling.
Camilla: Love you.
Charles: Bye.
Camilla: Hopefully talk to you in the morning.
Charles: Please.
Camilla: Bye, I do love you.
Charles: Night.
Camilla: Night.
Charles: Night.
Camilla: Love you forever
Charles: night.
Camilla: G'bye. bye my darling.
Charles: Night.
Camilla: Night, night.
Charles: Night.
Camilla: Bye bye.
Charles: Going.
Camilla: Gone.
Charles: Going.
Camilla: Gone
Charles: Night.
Camilla: Bye, Press the button.
Charles: Going to press the tit.
Camilla: All right darling, I wish you were pressing mine.
Charles: God, I wish I was, Harder and harder.
Camilla: Oh, darling.
Charles: Night.
Camilla: Night.
Charles: Love you.
Camilla: (Yawning) Love you. Press the tit.
Charles: Adore you. Night.
Camilla: Night.
Charles: Night.
Camilla: (Blows a kiss)
Charles: Night.
Camilla: G'night my darling, Love you.
Charles then finally hangs up the phone....
Well what do you think of all that?
I'll leave you all to make your own minds up...
The above transcript was typed in by Sean one boring Sunday afternoon
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'Nobody knows what utter hell it is to be Prince of Wales,’ Charles said in November 2004. His idea of hell, it must be said, is unlikely to be shared by most of his future subjects.
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Take, for example, accounts of what it is like to have Prince Charles come to stay for the weekend.
Before a visit to one friend in North-East England, he sent his staff ahead a day early with a truck carrying furniture to replace the perfectly appropriate fittings in the guest rooms.
And not just the odd chest of drawers: the truck contained nothing less than Charles and Camilla’s complete bedrooms, including the Prince’s orthopaedic bed, along with his own linen.
His staff had also made sure to pack a small radio, Charles’s own lavatory seat, rolls of Kleenex Premium Comfort lavatory paper, Laphroaig whisky and bottled water (for both bedrooms), plus two landscapes of the Scottish Highlands.
A new book by Britain's top investigative author has revealed Charles's remarkable travel demands including bringing his entire bedroom, complete with orthopaedic bed, on trips +10
A new book by Britain's top investigative author has revealed Charles's remarkable travel demands including bringing his entire bedroom, complete with orthopaedic bed, on trips
The next delivery to arrive was his food — organic, of course. His hosts decided, despite their enjoyment of his company, not to invite him again.
Their experience was less distressing, however, than that of the family asked to host Charles for a long weekend on the Welsh borders.
Over the preceding months, they’d invited many friends for the four meals at which he’d preside; they’d also hired staff and ordered in masses of food and flowers.
But on the Friday afternoon of Charles’s expected arrival, there was a call from St James’s Palace to offer regrets. Under pressure of business, the Prince could not arrive until Saturday morning.
The following day, the same official telephoned to offer regrets for Saturday lunch, but gave the assurance that Charles would arrive for dinner. Then, that afternoon, the whole visit was cancelled due to ‘unforeseen circumstances’.
The considerable waste and disappointment were not mitigated when Charles later revealed to his stricken hostess the reason for his cancellation. He had felt unable to abandon the beauty of his sunlit garden at Highgrove, he said.
For about six months of every year, the heir to the throne enjoyed a unique lifestyle in beautiful places, either in seclusion or with friends.
Although his travelling staff (a butler, two valets, chef, private secretary, typist and bodyguards) could anticipate most of his movements between his six homes, the only definite confirmation of his final destination, especially to his hosts, would be the arrival of a truck carrying suitcases, furniture and food.
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There then followed endless telephone calls with his staff as he changed his mind about his future plans and projects.
For four months every year he lived in Scotland, where he expected people to visit him from London, usually at their own expense.
Sometimes, he travelled abroad. After the death of the Queen Mother in March 2002, for instance, he flew to Greece to stay for three days on his own in a monastery on Mount Athos.
His travelling staff include a butler, two valets, chef, private secretary, typist and bodyguards +10
His travelling staff include a butler, two valets, chef, private secretary, typist and bodyguards
Unfortunately, someone took a photograph that showed the Prince stepping off a boat with a butler and a remarkable amount of luggage in tow — certainly far more than anyone could need for a few days’ meditation.
The image didn’t exactly chime with the theme of the imminent Jubilee celebrations: to emphasise the monarchy’s relevance in modern Britain. Charles’s staff could see this, even if he couldn’t.Julia Cleverdon, an executive on one of his charities, stuck the photo on her office wall and wrote, with risky irony: ‘We’re off to Mt Athos with 43 pieces of luggage.’
The Prince’s other free weeks were likely to be divided between well-off friends. At Chatsworth, the 175-room home of his beloved Debo Mitford, the Duchess of Devonshire, Charles and Camilla would be assigned a whole wing for up to three weeks.
During the shooting season, the Prince opted for the company of Gerald Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster, at either Eaton Hall, near Chester, or at the Duke’s shooting lodge in the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire.
In between, he stayed at Garrowby, the home of the Earl and Countess of Halifax in Yorkshire, and with Chips and Sarah Keswick in Invermark, Scotland.
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Even his personal policeman was roped in to cater to his comfort. If the Prince had to attend a function, the policeman would arrive with a flask containing a pre-mixed Martini. This would then be handed over to the host’s butler along with a special glass that Charles insisted on using.
And if he was expected to sit for a meal, the host would be informed in advance that an aide would be delivering a bag containing the Prince’s food. This was in complete contrast with the Queen, who always ate what everyone else was having.
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None of this petulant behaviour would be on show, however, when Charles emerged in public. On those occasions, he’d show what appeared to be genuine interest in people and events.
Few outsiders could guess, commented one adviser, whether or not he was ‘just putting on a game face’.
Sir Christopher Airy, who became his private secretary in 1990, was once reprimanded for suggesting to Charles that a forthcoming visit was ‘your duty’. The Prince shouted at him: ‘Duty is what I live — an intolerable burden.’
At home, his demands were constant, which meant an assistant had to be on call in Charles’s office until he went to sleep.
All his aides were subject to familiar daily tirades. ‘Even my office is not the right temperature,’ he’d moan. ‘Why do I have to put up with this? It makes my life so unbearable.’
Sir John Riddell, his private secretary for five years from 1985, once told a colleague that Charles was better suited to being a second-hand car salesman than a royal prince.
In this picture one of Prince Charles's flunkies is revealed to be the 'keeper of the royal cushion' +10
In this picture one of Prince Charles's flunkies is revealed to be the 'keeper of the royal cushion'
‘Every time I made the office work,’ Riddell observed, ‘the Prince f***ed it up again.
‘He comes in, complains that his office is “useless” and people cannot spell and the world is so unfair, then says: “This is part of the intolerable burden I put up with. This incompetence!” ’
When Charles entertained at home, everything was geared to his own habits and convenience. Dinner would be served to guests at 8pm, but he wouldn’t arrive until 8.15pm, because he’d decided against eating a first course.
It was fine, therefore, for dinner guests to start without him. Not at breakfast, though: visitors to Highgrove were cautioned by Camilla not to begin eating before the Prince appeared.
He was also unusually particular about his gardens at Highgrove. Because he refused to use pesticides, he employed four gardeners who would lie, nose-down, on a trailer pulled by a slow-moving Land Rover to pluck out weeds.
In addition, retired Indian servicemen were deployed to prowl through the undergrowth at night with torches and handpick slugs from the leaves of plants.
Charles also gave rein to extravagance in his office, where he employed an individual private secretary for each of his interests — including the charities, architecture, complementary medicine and the environment.
'What's this!' asked Charles. 'Clingfilm, darling'
By the third anniversary of the Prince’s marriage, Charles and Camilla’s domestic life had settled into a happy routine. Although the staff occasionally heard arguments, the Duchess of Cornwall had become Charles’s anchor and protector.
But even she could sometimes be amused by his loftiness. ‘I’ve been on the Tube, you know,’ he once told a friend after they’d returned from the theatre to Clarence House for dinner.
‘Yes, but only to open a line,’ was the accurate riposte. That same evening, Camilla had told the staff to leave salads and cold cuts of meat on the sideboard.
‘Let’s see what’s for dinner,’ said Charles after finishing his martini. He walked into the dining room and shrieked.
Fearing the worst, Camilla dashed in after him. ‘What’s this?’ asked her husband, pointing at the food.
‘It’s cling film, darling,’ she replied.
And anyone visiting the office at St James’s Palace would be escorted to it by no fewer than three footmen, each responsible for a short segment of corridor.
A weekend with the Prince at Sandringham, meanwhile, can be a decidedly odd experience. One group of writers and journalists, invited five years ago, arrived to find that each of them had been assigned a servant.
Friday after dinner was listed as a cinema night. The chosen film was Robert Altman’s Gosford Park, depicting upstairs/downstairs life to an audience surrounded by the reality of that social order. The film became a regular feature of Charles’s culture weekends.
Michael Fawcett, the Prince’s former valet and fixer, supervised the placing of chairs in front of a screen in the ballroom. In the front row were two throne-like armchairs for Charles and Camilla.
Soon everyone was seated, and servants entered with silver platters of ice cream. The film started. Charles and Camilla instantly fell asleep, and the ice cream slowly melted away.
On Saturday, the guests took a walk with Charles, during which he spoke about his belief in a sustainable environment. They were careful to avoid debate: their host, they had been cautioned, was easily offended.
‘People think I’m bonkers, crackers,’ Charles groaned suddenly, in the middle of a field. ‘Do you think I’m mad?’ he asked, in a manner that forbade a positive reply.
The two-hour walk ended back at the house, where the guests were served tea.
‘Right, we’re off,’ Charles announced, striding out of the house after a quick cup. Jumping into his Aston Martin, he drove at breakneck speed down narrow, twisting lanes, reassured that police motorcyclists had cleared other traffic.
His guests followed in a fleet of gleaming Land Rovers, arriving at Charles’s local church in time to hear a short concert.
On Sunday, female guests had been instructed to wear appropriate hats and gloves for a trip to the local Anglican church, St Mary the Virgin and St Mary Magdalen. The two who chose to go to mass at a nearby Roman Catholic church felt Charles’s displeasure.
By Sunday dinner, some of the guests had become puzzled about their host. His habit of commandeering a small bowl of olive oil just for himself provoked one visitor to recount a story of Charles during a recent trip to India.
The Prince had invited the banking heir Lord billionaires be rounded up to accompany him. During the tour, a sumptuous lunch was held in a maharaja’s palace.
Unexpectedly, a loaf of Italian bread was placed on the table. As an American billionaire reached out to take a piece, Charles shouted: ‘No, that’s mine! Only for me!’
In reply to that story, another visitor recalled that on a previous weekend at Sandringham, a guest had brought Charles a truffle as a gift. To everyone’s envy, Charles did not share the delicacy at dinner but kept it to himself.
As they listened to these curious tales, Charles’s guests did not laugh; there was merely bewilderment.
Those who know him have often asked themselves why Prince Charles is so extraordinarily self-indulgent +10
Those who know him have often asked themselves why Prince Charles is so extraordinarily self-indulgent
At the end of the Sandringham weekend — the guests were asked not to leave until the Monday morning — some were told to leave £150 in cash for the staff, or to visit the estate’s souvenir shop.
Most would tell their friends that Charles seemed genuine, but that the weekend was surreal.
Those who know him have often asked themselves why Prince Charles is so extraordinarily self-indulgent. Why can’t he be more like his mother, who lives without complaint under leaky roofs and in rooms that haven’t been repainted since her Coronation?
In 2006, for instance, Charles used the royal train simply to travel to Penrith to visit a pub — at a cost of £18,916 — as part of his ‘pub in the hub’ initiative to revitalise village life.
And he spent £20,980 for a day trip by plane from Scotland to Lincolnshire to watch William receive his RAF wings.
By contrast, the Queen travelled by train — courtesy of First Capital Connect — to Sandringham at Christmas. Her ticket cost £50, instead of the £15,000 her journey would have cost by the royal train.
Some have speculated that Charles’s extravagance is a kind of revenge on the Duke of Edinburgh, for sending him to Gordonstoun in Scotland during his formative years. The Prince loathed the school’s Spartan regime, but his father insisted he stay there to complete his secondary education.
The other mystery is why Charles has never seemed to appreciate his great good fortune. Instead, he has given vent so frequently to resentment that one friend has dubbed him ‘an Olympian whinger’.
With a personal income of millions from the Duchy of Cornwall (£16.3 million in 2007 alone) he could afford to indulge his slightest whim — yet even that didn’t satisfy him.
One evening, the Prince was particularly maudlin at a dinner hosted by a billionaire in Klosters, Switzerland, for a number of the super-rich. When they’d finished eating, Charles huddled in a corner with King Constantine of Greece. ‘We pulled the short straw,’ sighed the Prince.
Shocked by the sight of an invoice
There’s little Charles loves more than his garden at Highgrove in Gloucestershire, which is why he prefers to live there rather than in London.
Although it’s a two-hour drive from the capital, he often summons people from London for the briefest of meetings — and regularly keeps them waiting. Very few refuse.
The outstanding garden, more than 35 years in the making, was designed by a succession of experts.
Molly Salisbury, Rosemary Verey, Miriam Rothschild, Julian and Isabel Bannerman, one after another, were enlisted to fill the landscape with trees, hedges, wildflowers, fountains, rare breeds of farm animals and architectural features, all blended into a romantic safe haven.
In return, the heir to the throne offered conditional gratitude. Professional gardeners were divided about the extent of Charles’s own contribution.
The art historian and noted gardener Sir Roy Strong was summoned to advise on the cultivation of hedges. He spent days with his own gardener perfecting his ideas.
At the end, he submitted his employee’s bill for £1,000 — and was never asked to return, or even thanked.
‘He’s shocked by the sight of an invoice,’ Strong noted. ‘So he likes people who don’t charge for their services.’
One of the few people known to have rebuffed the Prince was Lucian Freud. Would he swap one of his oils — worth millions of pounds — for one of Charles’s watercolours, he was asked?
‘I don’t want one of your rotten paintings,’ Freud replied.
Compared with others in the room, he complained, both he and the King were stuck for cash. In his case, he explained, the Duchy of Cornwall administrators would repeatedly tell him what he couldn’t afford to do.
In fact, Charles doesn’t have to answer to anyone over his use of the duchy’s income.
At the time of his complaint, among his 124 staff — most of them paid for by taxpayers — were four valets.
Why four for one man? So that two would always be available to help him change his clothes, which he did up to five times every day.
It could be argued that it is his association with billionaires that has made Charles so dissatisfied with his lot. During a recent after-dinner speech at Waddesdon Manor, Lord Rothschild’s Buckinghamshire home, Charles complained that his host employed more gardeners than himself — 15 against his nine.
Fortunately, the public were unaware of such gripes. His staff, however, began to realise that his extravagance was threatening to undermine his public image.
To counter this, Michael Fawcett told a charity donor: ‘His Royal Highness lives modestly. He hasn’t got a yacht and doesn’t eat lunch.’
This had the benefit of being partly true: Charles has never bought a yacht and prefers not to eat lunch — though he could easily afford both.
More worryingly, the Prince’s then private secretary Sir Michael Peat decided to brief a journalist that ‘Charles does not enjoy a champagne and caviar lifestyle’.
Contrary to the public’s perception, he continued, the Prince possessed only one car, and did not even own his own home.
In reality, Charles had access to a fleet of at least six cars, including two Aston Martins, a Bentley, an Audi, a Range Rover and a Land Rover.
And Peat’s quibble about the legal ownership of the six homes variously occupied by the Prince (Clarence House, Highgrove, Birkhall, the Castle of Mey, Balmoral and Sandringham) was clearly disingenuous.
Among other things Peat failed to mention was that when Charles moved into Clarence House, in 2003, the cost of refurbishment had soared from £3 million towards £6 million — all funded by the taxpayer.
Or that the 15-bedroom Castle of Mey, had been rebuilt with the help of a £1 million gift from Julia Kauffman, a Canadian-born heiress living in Kansas City.
Foreign Office officials, however, were well aware of the Prince’s tendency to demand the best of everything, without dipping into his own pocket.
Indeed, relations with the heir to the throne became increasingly strained as he continued to insist on travelling on private planes, especially to the Continent.
After one particularly nasty spat, Charles reluctantly agreed to fly commercial in Europe. But on his return, he refused ever again to take a BA plane.
‘He wanted the convenience — and not to mix with hoi polloi,’ observed one mandarin dryly.
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William was furious when aides snubbed Kate's mum
While Prince Charles’s relationship with his parents was set in a permanent frost, his connection with his sons was almost as uneasy. One of his most painful recollections was of a visit to Kensington Palace while Diana was alive, and the boys were still small. As soon as Harry saw his father, he ran towards him — then suddenly stopped short.
‘Mummy says I mustn’t,’ he cried, just as Charles was about to hug him.
There was only one conclusion to be drawn: Diana had poisoned the boys’ minds towards their father.
After her death, the brothers had to cope with a continuing onslaught of public revelations about their parents’ adulterous relationships. Grieving for his mother, William would say, was especially difficult because ‘it was so raw’, and there was minimal privacy.
Prince Charles worried he was being usurped by the Middletons, and decided to ignore Carole Middleton on social occasions. To counter the hurtful snubs the Queen made a point of inviting a TV cameraman to film her driving the former air hostess around the Balmoral estate (pictured) +10
Prince Charles worried he was being usurped by the Middletons, and decided to ignore Carole Middleton on social occasions. To counter the hurtful snubs the Queen made a point of inviting a TV cameraman to film her driving the former air hostess around the Balmoral estate (pictured)
And then there was Camilla. Charles’s relationship with his sons certainly wasn’t helped by her presence — which was a constant reminder of their mother’s torment.
For months, staff at Clarence House noticed that William and Harry entered the building through the servants’ quarters, in order to avoid both their father and Camilla.
Camilla got addicted to luxury too
Marriage to the Prince of Wales changed Camilla. When she accepted an invitation to a dinner party, her hosts were now sent a list of the foods she liked and disliked.
After all, her husband had done this for years, so why not adopt his habit?
As Duchess of Cornwall, she soon became accustomed to a life of luxury. At her request, Charles’s private secretary provided her with a chauffeur-driven car; and when she flew, it was normally only on private jets.
She could be stubborn about this. When Charles was invited to New York in 2008, to collect a Global Environmental Citizen award, the Foreign Office insisted the couple fly BA. Camilla, however, demanded a private plane.
Even Camilla (pictured on a yacht with Prince Charles) became addicted to luxury +10
Even Camilla (pictured on a yacht with Prince Charles) became addicted to luxury
It was pointed out that the sight of Charles arriving on a chartered jet to receive an environmental prize would be unhelpful. So the Prince reluctantly agreed to fly BA — only for Camilla to dig in her heels.
She had a cut hand, she said, which would prevent her travelling to New York. After a fierce argument, she finally agreed to fly on the BA plane with Charles and 14 staff, including her hairdresser, butler, dresser, two valets, press officers, a doctor and five police protection officers.
One year, the Prince chartered a private yacht for about £210,000, but Camilla wasn’t impressed. She grumbled that it was smaller than those of Greek shipping billionaire Yiannis Latsis or car park tycoon Donald Gosling — who’d offered her cruises for free.
More free hand-outs came from the public. In 2008, an official report claimed that Camilla cost taxpayers a mere £2,000 a year. But it failed to mention the taxpayer had also spent £1.8 million on security around Ray Mill — the home she’d kept in Wiltshire — and a further £200,000 on her various travels.
Despite her cosseted lifestyle, however, Camilla had a habit of being late for everything. This annoyed Charles, who frequently shouted from the bottom of the stairs at Clarence House: ‘Come on, get a move on!’
‘Where are we going?’ she’d ask, as she rushed down.
‘Haven’t you read the brief?’ Charles would snap, as if he were speaking to a slow learner.
Clarence House staff, however, were ordered to give her special treatment: they had to bow to her, and reply ‘Yes, Ma’am’ to all her demands.
To reinforce his wife’s higher profile, Charles also requested that flags should fly on public buildings on Camilla’s birthday.
In the opinion of some of his staff, Charles’s lifestyle had blinded him to his sons’ personal troubles, and he was largely unaware of their coolness towards his mistress.
Harry was the more worrying. Ever since his confession to smoking cannabis at Highgrove as a teenager, Charles had struggled to control him.
Paparazzi had sold photographs of Harry emerging bedraggled with a topless model from Boujis nightclub in South Kensington; then chasing Chelsy Davy, his Zimbabwean girlfriend, across Africa; and misbehaving at endless parties.
As William grew up, it became clear that he too was a very different royal from his father. Since leaving university, he had neither shared his father’s interests nor offered to continue his charities. Specifically, he refused involvement in The Prince’s Trust.
After his own marriage, William chose to retreat with Kate to Norfolk, where they could preserve their privacy. They also preferred to spend Christmas with her parents rather than at Sandringham with the other royals.
The distance between Highgrove and Norfolk isolated the Prince from his grandchildren, and allowed Kate’s mother, Carole Middleton, to take charge.
Charles began to fear that he was being usurped by the Middletons, and several of the Queen’s courtiers picked up on this. As a consequence, they decided to ignore Carole Middleton on social occasions.
This so infuriated William that he consulted with his grandmother. To counter the hurtful snubs against Carole Middleton, the Queen then made a point of inviting a TV cameraman to film her driving the former air hostess around the Balmoral estate.
Meanwhile, Charles had decided, as neither of the boys showed any interest in classical music, he’d invite Kate to her first opera — Bellini’s La Sonnambula (The Sleepwalker) at Covent Garden.
It should have been a wonderful night out. As usual, Michael Fawcett had organised for dinner to be sent from Clarence House and served in the Royal Box during the interval on Charles’s personal china, using his personal silver cutlery.
Sadly, however, even the Prince had to admit the production was ‘awful’, and his hope that Kate might be converted to classical music was lost. Like William, she preferred Phantom Of The Opera.Once she’d married William, Charles grew worried that the public’s attention was switching to them.
To his disappointment, the Canadian government had asked for his proposed tour of the country to be delayed, so that his son and new daughter-in-law could visit first.
For her part, Camilla was unconcerned about Kate taking the limelight.
‘She didn’t give a damn,’ noted Robert Higdon, the chief executive of Charles’s charity foundation in America. ‘[But] Charles saw Kate and William as the new stars and feared he’d be in trouble.’
Camilla also dismissed the presumption that Kate would be the first commoner Queen.
‘That’ll be me,’ she’d say with a laugh.
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'Nobody knows what utter hell it is to be Prince of Wales,’ Charles said in November 2004. His idea of hell, it must be said, is unlikely to be shared by most of his future subjects.
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Take, for example, accounts of what it is like to have Prince Charles come to stay for the weekend.
Before a visit to one friend in North-East England, he sent his staff ahead a day early with a truck carrying furniture to replace the perfectly appropriate fittings in the guest rooms.
And not just the odd chest of drawers: the truck contained nothing less than Charles and Camilla’s complete bedrooms, including the Prince’s orthopaedic bed, along with his own linen.
His staff had also made sure to pack a small radio, Charles’s own lavatory seat, rolls of Kleenex Premium Comfort lavatory paper, Laphroaig whisky and bottled water (for both bedrooms), plus two landscapes of the Scottish Highlands.
A new book by Britain's top investigative author has revealed Charles's remarkable travel demands including bringing his entire bedroom, complete with orthopaedic bed, on trips +10
A new book by Britain's top investigative author has revealed Charles's remarkable travel demands including bringing his entire bedroom, complete with orthopaedic bed, on trips
The next delivery to arrive was his food — organic, of course. His hosts decided, despite their enjoyment of his company, not to invite him again.
Their experience was less distressing, however, than that of the family asked to host Charles for a long weekend on the Welsh borders.
Over the preceding months, they’d invited many friends for the four meals at which he’d preside; they’d also hired staff and ordered in masses of food and flowers.
But on the Friday afternoon of Charles’s expected arrival, there was a call from St James’s Palace to offer regrets. Under pressure of business, the Prince could not arrive until Saturday morning.
The following day, the same official telephoned to offer regrets for Saturday lunch, but gave the assurance that Charles would arrive for dinner. Then, that afternoon, the whole visit was cancelled due to ‘unforeseen circumstances’.
The considerable waste and disappointment were not mitigated when Charles later revealed to his stricken hostess the reason for his cancellation. He had felt unable to abandon the beauty of his sunlit garden at Highgrove, he said.
For about six months of every year, the heir to the throne enjoyed a unique lifestyle in beautiful places, either in seclusion or with friends.
Although his travelling staff (a butler, two valets, chef, private secretary, typist and bodyguards) could anticipate most of his movements between his six homes, the only definite confirmation of his final destination, especially to his hosts, would be the arrival of a truck carrying suitcases, furniture and food.
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There then followed endless telephone calls with his staff as he changed his mind about his future plans and projects.
For four months every year he lived in Scotland, where he expected people to visit him from London, usually at their own expense.
Sometimes, he travelled abroad. After the death of the Queen Mother in March 2002, for instance, he flew to Greece to stay for three days on his own in a monastery on Mount Athos.
His travelling staff include a butler, two valets, chef, private secretary, typist and bodyguards +10
His travelling staff include a butler, two valets, chef, private secretary, typist and bodyguards
Unfortunately, someone took a photograph that showed the Prince stepping off a boat with a butler and a remarkable amount of luggage in tow — certainly far more than anyone could need for a few days’ meditation.
The image didn’t exactly chime with the theme of the imminent Jubilee celebrations: to emphasise the monarchy’s relevance in modern Britain. Charles’s staff could see this, even if he couldn’t.Julia Cleverdon, an executive on one of his charities, stuck the photo on her office wall and wrote, with risky irony: ‘We’re off to Mt Athos with 43 pieces of luggage.’
The Prince’s other free weeks were likely to be divided between well-off friends. At Chatsworth, the 175-room home of his beloved Debo Mitford, the Duchess of Devonshire, Charles and Camilla would be assigned a whole wing for up to three weeks.
During the shooting season, the Prince opted for the company of Gerald Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster, at either Eaton Hall, near Chester, or at the Duke’s shooting lodge in the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire.
In between, he stayed at Garrowby, the home of the Earl and Countess of Halifax in Yorkshire, and with Chips and Sarah Keswick in Invermark, Scotland.
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Even his personal policeman was roped in to cater to his comfort. If the Prince had to attend a function, the policeman would arrive with a flask containing a pre-mixed Martini. This would then be handed over to the host’s butler along with a special glass that Charles insisted on using.
And if he was expected to sit for a meal, the host would be informed in advance that an aide would be delivering a bag containing the Prince’s food. This was in complete contrast with the Queen, who always ate what everyone else was having.
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None of this petulant behaviour would be on show, however, when Charles emerged in public. On those occasions, he’d show what appeared to be genuine interest in people and events.
Few outsiders could guess, commented one adviser, whether or not he was ‘just putting on a game face’.
Sir Christopher Airy, who became his private secretary in 1990, was once reprimanded for suggesting to Charles that a forthcoming visit was ‘your duty’. The Prince shouted at him: ‘Duty is what I live — an intolerable burden.’
At home, his demands were constant, which meant an assistant had to be on call in Charles’s office until he went to sleep.
All his aides were subject to familiar daily tirades. ‘Even my office is not the right temperature,’ he’d moan. ‘Why do I have to put up with this? It makes my life so unbearable.’
Sir John Riddell, his private secretary for five years from 1985, once told a colleague that Charles was better suited to being a second-hand car salesman than a royal prince.
In this picture one of Prince Charles's flunkies is revealed to be the 'keeper of the royal cushion' +10
In this picture one of Prince Charles's flunkies is revealed to be the 'keeper of the royal cushion'
‘Every time I made the office work,’ Riddell observed, ‘the Prince f***ed it up again.
‘He comes in, complains that his office is “useless” and people cannot spell and the world is so unfair, then says: “This is part of the intolerable burden I put up with. This incompetence!” ’
When Charles entertained at home, everything was geared to his own habits and convenience. Dinner would be served to guests at 8pm, but he wouldn’t arrive until 8.15pm, because he’d decided against eating a first course.
It was fine, therefore, for dinner guests to start without him. Not at breakfast, though: visitors to Highgrove were cautioned by Camilla not to begin eating before the Prince appeared.
He was also unusually particular about his gardens at Highgrove. Because he refused to use pesticides, he employed four gardeners who would lie, nose-down, on a trailer pulled by a slow-moving Land Rover to pluck out weeds.
In addition, retired Indian servicemen were deployed to prowl through the undergrowth at night with torches and handpick slugs from the leaves of plants.
Charles also gave rein to extravagance in his office, where he employed an individual private secretary for each of his interests — including the charities, architecture, complementary medicine and the environment.
'What's this!' asked Charles. 'Clingfilm, darling'
By the third anniversary of the Prince’s marriage, Charles and Camilla’s domestic life had settled into a happy routine. Although the staff occasionally heard arguments, the Duchess of Cornwall had become Charles’s anchor and protector.
But even she could sometimes be amused by his loftiness. ‘I’ve been on the Tube, you know,’ he once told a friend after they’d returned from the theatre to Clarence House for dinner.
‘Yes, but only to open a line,’ was the accurate riposte. That same evening, Camilla had told the staff to leave salads and cold cuts of meat on the sideboard.
‘Let’s see what’s for dinner,’ said Charles after finishing his martini. He walked into the dining room and shrieked.
Fearing the worst, Camilla dashed in after him. ‘What’s this?’ asked her husband, pointing at the food.
‘It’s cling film, darling,’ she replied.
And anyone visiting the office at St James’s Palace would be escorted to it by no fewer than three footmen, each responsible for a short segment of corridor.
A weekend with the Prince at Sandringham, meanwhile, can be a decidedly odd experience. One group of writers and journalists, invited five years ago, arrived to find that each of them had been assigned a servant.
Friday after dinner was listed as a cinema night. The chosen film was Robert Altman’s Gosford Park, depicting upstairs/downstairs life to an audience surrounded by the reality of that social order. The film became a regular feature of Charles’s culture weekends.
Michael Fawcett, the Prince’s former valet and fixer, supervised the placing of chairs in front of a screen in the ballroom. In the front row were two throne-like armchairs for Charles and Camilla.
Soon everyone was seated, and servants entered with silver platters of ice cream. The film started. Charles and Camilla instantly fell asleep, and the ice cream slowly melted away.
On Saturday, the guests took a walk with Charles, during which he spoke about his belief in a sustainable environment. They were careful to avoid debate: their host, they had been cautioned, was easily offended.
‘People think I’m bonkers, crackers,’ Charles groaned suddenly, in the middle of a field. ‘Do you think I’m mad?’ he asked, in a manner that forbade a positive reply.
The two-hour walk ended back at the house, where the guests were served tea.
‘Right, we’re off,’ Charles announced, striding out of the house after a quick cup. Jumping into his Aston Martin, he drove at breakneck speed down narrow, twisting lanes, reassured that police motorcyclists had cleared other traffic.
His guests followed in a fleet of gleaming Land Rovers, arriving at Charles’s local church in time to hear a short concert.
On Sunday, female guests had been instructed to wear appropriate hats and gloves for a trip to the local Anglican church, St Mary the Virgin and St Mary Magdalen. The two who chose to go to mass at a nearby Roman Catholic church felt Charles’s displeasure.
By Sunday dinner, some of the guests had become puzzled about their host. His habit of commandeering a small bowl of olive oil just for himself provoked one visitor to recount a story of Charles during a recent trip to India.
The Prince had invited the banking heir Lord billionaires be rounded up to accompany him. During the tour, a sumptuous lunch was held in a maharaja’s palace.
Unexpectedly, a loaf of Italian bread was placed on the table. As an American billionaire reached out to take a piece, Charles shouted: ‘No, that’s mine! Only for me!’
In reply to that story, another visitor recalled that on a previous weekend at Sandringham, a guest had brought Charles a truffle as a gift. To everyone’s envy, Charles did not share the delicacy at dinner but kept it to himself.
As they listened to these curious tales, Charles’s guests did not laugh; there was merely bewilderment.
Those who know him have often asked themselves why Prince Charles is so extraordinarily self-indulgent +10
Those who know him have often asked themselves why Prince Charles is so extraordinarily self-indulgent
At the end of the Sandringham weekend — the guests were asked not to leave until the Monday morning — some were told to leave £150 in cash for the staff, or to visit the estate’s souvenir shop.
Most would tell their friends that Charles seemed genuine, but that the weekend was surreal.
Those who know him have often asked themselves why Prince Charles is so extraordinarily self-indulgent. Why can’t he be more like his mother, who lives without complaint under leaky roofs and in rooms that haven’t been repainted since her Coronation?
In 2006, for instance, Charles used the royal train simply to travel to Penrith to visit a pub — at a cost of £18,916 — as part of his ‘pub in the hub’ initiative to revitalise village life.
And he spent £20,980 for a day trip by plane from Scotland to Lincolnshire to watch William receive his RAF wings.
By contrast, the Queen travelled by train — courtesy of First Capital Connect — to Sandringham at Christmas. Her ticket cost £50, instead of the £15,000 her journey would have cost by the royal train.
Some have speculated that Charles’s extravagance is a kind of revenge on the Duke of Edinburgh, for sending him to Gordonstoun in Scotland during his formative years. The Prince loathed the school’s Spartan regime, but his father insisted he stay there to complete his secondary education.
The other mystery is why Charles has never seemed to appreciate his great good fortune. Instead, he has given vent so frequently to resentment that one friend has dubbed him ‘an Olympian whinger’.
With a personal income of millions from the Duchy of Cornwall (£16.3 million in 2007 alone) he could afford to indulge his slightest whim — yet even that didn’t satisfy him.
One evening, the Prince was particularly maudlin at a dinner hosted by a billionaire in Klosters, Switzerland, for a number of the super-rich. When they’d finished eating, Charles huddled in a corner with King Constantine of Greece. ‘We pulled the short straw,’ sighed the Prince.
Shocked by the sight of an invoice
There’s little Charles loves more than his garden at Highgrove in Gloucestershire, which is why he prefers to live there rather than in London.
Although it’s a two-hour drive from the capital, he often summons people from London for the briefest of meetings — and regularly keeps them waiting. Very few refuse.
The outstanding garden, more than 35 years in the making, was designed by a succession of experts.
Molly Salisbury, Rosemary Verey, Miriam Rothschild, Julian and Isabel Bannerman, one after another, were enlisted to fill the landscape with trees, hedges, wildflowers, fountains, rare breeds of farm animals and architectural features, all blended into a romantic safe haven.
In return, the heir to the throne offered conditional gratitude. Professional gardeners were divided about the extent of Charles’s own contribution.
The art historian and noted gardener Sir Roy Strong was summoned to advise on the cultivation of hedges. He spent days with his own gardener perfecting his ideas.
At the end, he submitted his employee’s bill for £1,000 — and was never asked to return, or even thanked.
‘He’s shocked by the sight of an invoice,’ Strong noted. ‘So he likes people who don’t charge for their services.’
One of the few people known to have rebuffed the Prince was Lucian Freud. Would he swap one of his oils — worth millions of pounds — for one of Charles’s watercolours, he was asked?
‘I don’t want one of your rotten paintings,’ Freud replied.
Compared with others in the room, he complained, both he and the King were stuck for cash. In his case, he explained, the Duchy of Cornwall administrators would repeatedly tell him what he couldn’t afford to do.
In fact, Charles doesn’t have to answer to anyone over his use of the duchy’s income.
At the time of his complaint, among his 124 staff — most of them paid for by taxpayers — were four valets.
Why four for one man? So that two would always be available to help him change his clothes, which he did up to five times every day.
It could be argued that it is his association with billionaires that has made Charles so dissatisfied with his lot. During a recent after-dinner speech at Waddesdon Manor, Lord Rothschild’s Buckinghamshire home, Charles complained that his host employed more gardeners than himself — 15 against his nine.
Fortunately, the public were unaware of such gripes. His staff, however, began to realise that his extravagance was threatening to undermine his public image.
To counter this, Michael Fawcett told a charity donor: ‘His Royal Highness lives modestly. He hasn’t got a yacht and doesn’t eat lunch.’
This had the benefit of being partly true: Charles has never bought a yacht and prefers not to eat lunch — though he could easily afford both.
More worryingly, the Prince’s then private secretary Sir Michael Peat decided to brief a journalist that ‘Charles does not enjoy a champagne and caviar lifestyle’.
Contrary to the public’s perception, he continued, the Prince possessed only one car, and did not even own his own home.
In reality, Charles had access to a fleet of at least six cars, including two Aston Martins, a Bentley, an Audi, a Range Rover and a Land Rover.
And Peat’s quibble about the legal ownership of the six homes variously occupied by the Prince (Clarence House, Highgrove, Birkhall, the Castle of Mey, Balmoral and Sandringham) was clearly disingenuous.
Among other things Peat failed to mention was that when Charles moved into Clarence House, in 2003, the cost of refurbishment had soared from £3 million towards £6 million — all funded by the taxpayer.
Or that the 15-bedroom Castle of Mey, had been rebuilt with the help of a £1 million gift from Julia Kauffman, a Canadian-born heiress living in Kansas City.
Foreign Office officials, however, were well aware of the Prince’s tendency to demand the best of everything, without dipping into his own pocket.
Indeed, relations with the heir to the throne became increasingly strained as he continued to insist on travelling on private planes, especially to the Continent.
After one particularly nasty spat, Charles reluctantly agreed to fly commercial in Europe. But on his return, he refused ever again to take a BA plane.
‘He wanted the convenience — and not to mix with hoi polloi,’ observed one mandarin dryly.
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William was furious when aides snubbed Kate's mum
While Prince Charles’s relationship with his parents was set in a permanent frost, his connection with his sons was almost as uneasy. One of his most painful recollections was of a visit to Kensington Palace while Diana was alive, and the boys were still small. As soon as Harry saw his father, he ran towards him — then suddenly stopped short.
‘Mummy says I mustn’t,’ he cried, just as Charles was about to hug him.
There was only one conclusion to be drawn: Diana had poisoned the boys’ minds towards their father.
After her death, the brothers had to cope with a continuing onslaught of public revelations about their parents’ adulterous relationships. Grieving for his mother, William would say, was especially difficult because ‘it was so raw’, and there was minimal privacy.
Prince Charles worried he was being usurped by the Middletons, and decided to ignore Carole Middleton on social occasions. To counter the hurtful snubs the Queen made a point of inviting a TV cameraman to film her driving the former air hostess around the Balmoral estate (pictured) +10
Prince Charles worried he was being usurped by the Middletons, and decided to ignore Carole Middleton on social occasions. To counter the hurtful snubs the Queen made a point of inviting a TV cameraman to film her driving the former air hostess around the Balmoral estate (pictured)
And then there was Camilla. Charles’s relationship with his sons certainly wasn’t helped by her presence — which was a constant reminder of their mother’s torment.
For months, staff at Clarence House noticed that William and Harry entered the building through the servants’ quarters, in order to avoid both their father and Camilla.
Camilla got addicted to luxury too
Marriage to the Prince of Wales changed Camilla. When she accepted an invitation to a dinner party, her hosts were now sent a list of the foods she liked and disliked.
After all, her husband had done this for years, so why not adopt his habit?
As Duchess of Cornwall, she soon became accustomed to a life of luxury. At her request, Charles’s private secretary provided her with a chauffeur-driven car; and when she flew, it was normally only on private jets.
She could be stubborn about this. When Charles was invited to New York in 2008, to collect a Global Environmental Citizen award, the Foreign Office insisted the couple fly BA. Camilla, however, demanded a private plane.
Even Camilla (pictured on a yacht with Prince Charles) became addicted to luxury +10
Even Camilla (pictured on a yacht with Prince Charles) became addicted to luxury
It was pointed out that the sight of Charles arriving on a chartered jet to receive an environmental prize would be unhelpful. So the Prince reluctantly agreed to fly BA — only for Camilla to dig in her heels.
She had a cut hand, she said, which would prevent her travelling to New York. After a fierce argument, she finally agreed to fly on the BA plane with Charles and 14 staff, including her hairdresser, butler, dresser, two valets, press officers, a doctor and five police protection officers.
One year, the Prince chartered a private yacht for about £210,000, but Camilla wasn’t impressed. She grumbled that it was smaller than those of Greek shipping billionaire Yiannis Latsis or car park tycoon Donald Gosling — who’d offered her cruises for free.
More free hand-outs came from the public. In 2008, an official report claimed that Camilla cost taxpayers a mere £2,000 a year. But it failed to mention the taxpayer had also spent £1.8 million on security around Ray Mill — the home she’d kept in Wiltshire — and a further £200,000 on her various travels.
Despite her cosseted lifestyle, however, Camilla had a habit of being late for everything. This annoyed Charles, who frequently shouted from the bottom of the stairs at Clarence House: ‘Come on, get a move on!’
‘Where are we going?’ she’d ask, as she rushed down.
‘Haven’t you read the brief?’ Charles would snap, as if he were speaking to a slow learner.
Clarence House staff, however, were ordered to give her special treatment: they had to bow to her, and reply ‘Yes, Ma’am’ to all her demands.
To reinforce his wife’s higher profile, Charles also requested that flags should fly on public buildings on Camilla’s birthday.
In the opinion of some of his staff, Charles’s lifestyle had blinded him to his sons’ personal troubles, and he was largely unaware of their coolness towards his mistress.
Harry was the more worrying. Ever since his confession to smoking cannabis at Highgrove as a teenager, Charles had struggled to control him.
Paparazzi had sold photographs of Harry emerging bedraggled with a topless model from Boujis nightclub in South Kensington; then chasing Chelsy Davy, his Zimbabwean girlfriend, across Africa; and misbehaving at endless parties.
As William grew up, it became clear that he too was a very different royal from his father. Since leaving university, he had neither shared his father’s interests nor offered to continue his charities. Specifically, he refused involvement in The Prince’s Trust.
After his own marriage, William chose to retreat with Kate to Norfolk, where they could preserve their privacy. They also preferred to spend Christmas with her parents rather than at Sandringham with the other royals.
The distance between Highgrove and Norfolk isolated the Prince from his grandchildren, and allowed Kate’s mother, Carole Middleton, to take charge.
Charles began to fear that he was being usurped by the Middletons, and several of the Queen’s courtiers picked up on this. As a consequence, they decided to ignore Carole Middleton on social occasions.
This so infuriated William that he consulted with his grandmother. To counter the hurtful snubs against Carole Middleton, the Queen then made a point of inviting a TV cameraman to film her driving the former air hostess around the Balmoral estate.
Meanwhile, Charles had decided, as neither of the boys showed any interest in classical music, he’d invite Kate to her first opera — Bellini’s La Sonnambula (The Sleepwalker) at Covent Garden.
It should have been a wonderful night out. As usual, Michael Fawcett had organised for dinner to be sent from Clarence House and served in the Royal Box during the interval on Charles’s personal china, using his personal silver cutlery.
Sadly, however, even the Prince had to admit the production was ‘awful’, and his hope that Kate might be converted to classical music was lost. Like William, she preferred Phantom Of The Opera.Once she’d married William, Charles grew worried that the public’s attention was switching to them.
To his disappointment, the Canadian government had asked for his proposed tour of the country to be delayed, so that his son and new daughter-in-law could visit first.
For her part, Camilla was unconcerned about Kate taking the limelight.
‘She didn’t give a damn,’ noted Robert Higdon, the chief executive of Charles’s charity foundation in America. ‘[But] Charles saw Kate and William as the new stars and feared he’d be in trouble.’
Camilla also dismissed the presumption that Kate would be the first commoner Queen.
‘That’ll be me,’ she’d say with a laugh.
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We have 18 months to save world, Prince Charles warns Commonwealth leaders
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Hannah Furness, royal correspondent 11 JULY 2019 • 9:00PM
The Prince of Wales has warned global leaders they have 18 critical months to solve climate change and restore the balance of nature, ensuring the survival of the human race.
The Prince, addressing foreign ministers from around the Commonwealth, said they were "uniquely positioned" to lead the world by example, urging them to match ambition with “the practical action that is required”.
Speaking as the future head of the Commonwealth, a position which was confirmed during a convention in London last year, he emphasised that the next 18 months would see "critical meetings that will collectively determine the global agenda for the coming decade".
The leaders of Commonwealth countries will gather next year in Rwanda for a week-long summit, at which they will discuss the "unparalleled challenges caused by rapid climate change and biodiversity loss".
In a speech during a reception at Clarence House, the Prince said: “Ladies and gentlemen, I am firmly of the view that the next 18 months will decide our ability to keep climate change to survivable levels and to restore nature to the equilibrium we need for our survival.
“Next year’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, therefore, could not be more important and I can only say how much I look forward, I hope, to seeing you and your leaders in Kigali so that we will succeed in raising our level of ambition, while matching it with the practical action that is required.
“I truly believe that the Commonwealth is uniquely positioned to join forces and lead the world by example.
“And your Excellencies, for what it’s worth, I stand ready to support you in these efforts and to seeing the Commonwealth at the forefront of a global solution.”
The Prince has long spoken about his deep concern for the future of the planet, urging leaders to focus on the threat presented by climate change.
Praising the Commonwealth’s shared values, he said: “This unity and strength will be vital in the years ahead for, as you know only too well, we are facing unparalleled challenges caused by rapid climate change and biodiversity loss.
Prince Charles, current Head of Commonwealth the Queen, Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland and Prime Minister Theresa May
Prince Charles, current Head of Commonwealth the Queen, Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland and Prime Minister Theresa May CREDIT: PA
“I do believe that the Commonwealth, with the extraordinary richness of resources and ideas upon which it can draw, can offer many solutions to the problems that we share.”
Referencing a range of environmental conferences to be held by the United Nations, he added: “The next 18 months will see critical meetings that will collectively determine the global agenda for the coming decade.
“Next year’s Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting stands of course at a pivotal point in the middle of these events and will be an absolutely vital moment to consolidate consensus on the way forward, not least of which, will be the deliberations on how to increase the amount of private sector finance flowing towards supporting sustainable development throughout the Commonwealth.”
Last year, the Prince of Wales was confirmed as the Commonwealth’s next head of government following the Queen’s public recommendation.
As the Queen no longer travels overseas, he will attend the 2020 CHOGM meeting in Rwanda as her representative, effectively taking on the role on the ground.
On Thursday his son, the Duke of Sussex, also undertook duties as Commonwealth Youth Ambassador at a roundtable meeting at Marlborough House, in which he heard from ministers about the issues facing young people in their countries.
In a statement issued through a spokesman afterwards, the Duke said: "It's up to all of us to ensure young people's voices are heard and their interests protected, but it's the people who have the power to shape policy for young people - all of you - that must champion them at the highest levels."
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Hannah Furness, royal correspondent 11 JULY 2019 • 9:00PM
The Prince of Wales has warned global leaders they have 18 critical months to solve climate change and restore the balance of nature, ensuring the survival of the human race.
The Prince, addressing foreign ministers from around the Commonwealth, said they were "uniquely positioned" to lead the world by example, urging them to match ambition with “the practical action that is required”.
Speaking as the future head of the Commonwealth, a position which was confirmed during a convention in London last year, he emphasised that the next 18 months would see "critical meetings that will collectively determine the global agenda for the coming decade".
The leaders of Commonwealth countries will gather next year in Rwanda for a week-long summit, at which they will discuss the "unparalleled challenges caused by rapid climate change and biodiversity loss".
In a speech during a reception at Clarence House, the Prince said: “Ladies and gentlemen, I am firmly of the view that the next 18 months will decide our ability to keep climate change to survivable levels and to restore nature to the equilibrium we need for our survival.
“Next year’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, therefore, could not be more important and I can only say how much I look forward, I hope, to seeing you and your leaders in Kigali so that we will succeed in raising our level of ambition, while matching it with the practical action that is required.
“I truly believe that the Commonwealth is uniquely positioned to join forces and lead the world by example.
“And your Excellencies, for what it’s worth, I stand ready to support you in these efforts and to seeing the Commonwealth at the forefront of a global solution.”
The Prince has long spoken about his deep concern for the future of the planet, urging leaders to focus on the threat presented by climate change.
Praising the Commonwealth’s shared values, he said: “This unity and strength will be vital in the years ahead for, as you know only too well, we are facing unparalleled challenges caused by rapid climate change and biodiversity loss.
Prince Charles, current Head of Commonwealth the Queen, Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland and Prime Minister Theresa May
Prince Charles, current Head of Commonwealth the Queen, Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland and Prime Minister Theresa May CREDIT: PA
“I do believe that the Commonwealth, with the extraordinary richness of resources and ideas upon which it can draw, can offer many solutions to the problems that we share.”
Referencing a range of environmental conferences to be held by the United Nations, he added: “The next 18 months will see critical meetings that will collectively determine the global agenda for the coming decade.
“Next year’s Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting stands of course at a pivotal point in the middle of these events and will be an absolutely vital moment to consolidate consensus on the way forward, not least of which, will be the deliberations on how to increase the amount of private sector finance flowing towards supporting sustainable development throughout the Commonwealth.”
Last year, the Prince of Wales was confirmed as the Commonwealth’s next head of government following the Queen’s public recommendation.
As the Queen no longer travels overseas, he will attend the 2020 CHOGM meeting in Rwanda as her representative, effectively taking on the role on the ground.
On Thursday his son, the Duke of Sussex, also undertook duties as Commonwealth Youth Ambassador at a roundtable meeting at Marlborough House, in which he heard from ministers about the issues facing young people in their countries.
In a statement issued through a spokesman afterwards, the Duke said: "It's up to all of us to ensure young people's voices are heard and their interests protected, but it's the people who have the power to shape policy for young people - all of you - that must champion them at the highest levels."
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Prince Charles warns that we will need 'four planets like earth to survive' as we just 'take and take' and urges companies to focus on the 'green recovery' following coronavirus
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The Prince of Wales spoke via recorded message from Balmoral, Aberdeenshire
He stated that at current rate we would need 'four planets like earth to survive'
Prince Charles was championing today's launch of sustainable platform RE:TV
The Prince of Wales has warned that we will need 'four planets like earth to survive or provide enough for everybody'.
Speaking today for Climate Week 2020, His Royal Highness urged companies to focus on 'the green recovery' following coronavirus, adding that 'there is a better world out there'.
Prince Charles said: 'We've so degraded natural systems, eco-systems, biodiversity, that it's becoming increasingly impossible for nature to sustain us.
'At the moment it's all take, take. Now we've reached the situation where we really need four planets like earth to survive or provide enough for everybody.
Scroll down for video
Climate activist Prince Charles (pictured) spoke out for a second time on Monday to launch Climate Week 2020. The royal warned that earth had sustained long lasting damage +4
Climate activist Prince Charles (pictured) spoke out for a second time on Monday to launch Climate Week 2020. The royal warned that earth had sustained long lasting damage
'And there is a better world out there. We can operate our industries far better'
He added that he was aware many industries were already dealing with strained operations from the coronavirus pandemic, but due to the 'challenges' such as these 'hitting us in the face' he had noticed an renewed interest in issues affecting the planet that sustains us.
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Prince Charles, who spoke via a recorded message from Balmoral, Aberdeenshire, said: 'Industries have obviously had to focus on dealing with the immediate impact of this horrendous pandemic, but the fascinating thing is I think a lot of people have still wanted fortunately to focus on the green recovery.'
In a speech opening Climate Week earlier today the Prince of Wales also called for global commitments to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 to be brought forward by two decades – because the current target 'suggests we have room to delay'.
Throughout his career Prince Charles (pictured) has highlighted environmental issues, now the royal calls for government targets to be brought forward +4
Throughout his career Prince Charles (pictured) has highlighted environmental issues, now the royal calls for government targets to be brought forward
Charles' comment, made in a speech to launch Climate Week, is at odds with the government's plan to cut carbon emissions to net zero within 30 years.
The heir to the throne, who has been an environmental campaigner since the early 1970s, said: 'With the planetary emergency so critical – with the permafrost melting in Siberia for instance, producing dire effects on global warming, and with the Pantanal in Brazil being consumed by unprecedented numbers of fires – we can no longer go on like this, as if there was no tomorrow and no ultimate reckoning for our abuse of nature.
'So what do we do? Without doubt we must now put ourselves on a war-like footing, approaching our action from the perspective of a military-style campaign. That way, working together, we can combat this most grave and urgent challenge.
'If we have the resolve to shift our trajectory, we must start now by bringing forward our net zero target – I am afraid 2050 simply suggests we have room to delay.'
Today's launch of sustainable video platform RE:TV is hoped to champion climate solutions +4
Today's launch of sustainable video platform RE:TV is hoped to champion climate solutions
Today's launch of sustainable video platform RE:TV is hoped to champion inspiring solutions from around the world.
Content on the site, curated by The Prince of Wales, will fall into five defined sub-channels: Re:Imagine, Re:Design, Re:Balance, Re:Invigorate, and Re:Invest - hoped to showcase solutions to accelerating a more sustainable future.
Speaking about the launch of RE:TV, Brian Moynihan, Chairman and CEO of Bank of America, and Co-Chair of the Sustainable Markets Initiative said: 'We support His Royal Highness's vital work in the sustainable markets initiative because the private sector can best create the conditions to align the flow of capital and other resources needed to address the long-term goals of society as defined by the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
Earlier on Monday, Prince Charles (pictured) gave an opening speech for Climate Week 2020, stating the ambitious target of 2030 for nations to cut emissions +4
Earlier on Monday, Prince Charles (pictured) gave an opening speech for Climate Week 2020, stating the ambitious target of 2030 for nations to cut emissions
'That is the goal of the Sustainable Markets Initiative: To harness the creativity, the innovation, the balance sheets and the efforts of organizations committed to Stakeholder Capitalism, and alignment to the SDGs, to bring to life The Prince of Wales' vision.'
The heir to the throne gave the ambitious target of 2030 for nations to cut emissions, which he said is needed 'given the enormity of the problem we face'.
The prince also called for a financial recovery package, like the Marshall Plan that rebuilt post-war Europe, to help 'nature, people and planet'.
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The Prince of Wales spoke via recorded message from Balmoral, Aberdeenshire
He stated that at current rate we would need 'four planets like earth to survive'
Prince Charles was championing today's launch of sustainable platform RE:TV
The Prince of Wales has warned that we will need 'four planets like earth to survive or provide enough for everybody'.
Speaking today for Climate Week 2020, His Royal Highness urged companies to focus on 'the green recovery' following coronavirus, adding that 'there is a better world out there'.
Prince Charles said: 'We've so degraded natural systems, eco-systems, biodiversity, that it's becoming increasingly impossible for nature to sustain us.
'At the moment it's all take, take. Now we've reached the situation where we really need four planets like earth to survive or provide enough for everybody.
Scroll down for video
Climate activist Prince Charles (pictured) spoke out for a second time on Monday to launch Climate Week 2020. The royal warned that earth had sustained long lasting damage +4
Climate activist Prince Charles (pictured) spoke out for a second time on Monday to launch Climate Week 2020. The royal warned that earth had sustained long lasting damage
'And there is a better world out there. We can operate our industries far better'
He added that he was aware many industries were already dealing with strained operations from the coronavirus pandemic, but due to the 'challenges' such as these 'hitting us in the face' he had noticed an renewed interest in issues affecting the planet that sustains us.
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Prince Charles, who spoke via a recorded message from Balmoral, Aberdeenshire, said: 'Industries have obviously had to focus on dealing with the immediate impact of this horrendous pandemic, but the fascinating thing is I think a lot of people have still wanted fortunately to focus on the green recovery.'
In a speech opening Climate Week earlier today the Prince of Wales also called for global commitments to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 to be brought forward by two decades – because the current target 'suggests we have room to delay'.
Throughout his career Prince Charles (pictured) has highlighted environmental issues, now the royal calls for government targets to be brought forward +4
Throughout his career Prince Charles (pictured) has highlighted environmental issues, now the royal calls for government targets to be brought forward
Charles' comment, made in a speech to launch Climate Week, is at odds with the government's plan to cut carbon emissions to net zero within 30 years.
The heir to the throne, who has been an environmental campaigner since the early 1970s, said: 'With the planetary emergency so critical – with the permafrost melting in Siberia for instance, producing dire effects on global warming, and with the Pantanal in Brazil being consumed by unprecedented numbers of fires – we can no longer go on like this, as if there was no tomorrow and no ultimate reckoning for our abuse of nature.
'So what do we do? Without doubt we must now put ourselves on a war-like footing, approaching our action from the perspective of a military-style campaign. That way, working together, we can combat this most grave and urgent challenge.
'If we have the resolve to shift our trajectory, we must start now by bringing forward our net zero target – I am afraid 2050 simply suggests we have room to delay.'
Today's launch of sustainable video platform RE:TV is hoped to champion climate solutions +4
Today's launch of sustainable video platform RE:TV is hoped to champion climate solutions
Today's launch of sustainable video platform RE:TV is hoped to champion inspiring solutions from around the world.
Content on the site, curated by The Prince of Wales, will fall into five defined sub-channels: Re:Imagine, Re:Design, Re:Balance, Re:Invigorate, and Re:Invest - hoped to showcase solutions to accelerating a more sustainable future.
Speaking about the launch of RE:TV, Brian Moynihan, Chairman and CEO of Bank of America, and Co-Chair of the Sustainable Markets Initiative said: 'We support His Royal Highness's vital work in the sustainable markets initiative because the private sector can best create the conditions to align the flow of capital and other resources needed to address the long-term goals of society as defined by the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
Earlier on Monday, Prince Charles (pictured) gave an opening speech for Climate Week 2020, stating the ambitious target of 2030 for nations to cut emissions +4
Earlier on Monday, Prince Charles (pictured) gave an opening speech for Climate Week 2020, stating the ambitious target of 2030 for nations to cut emissions
'That is the goal of the Sustainable Markets Initiative: To harness the creativity, the innovation, the balance sheets and the efforts of organizations committed to Stakeholder Capitalism, and alignment to the SDGs, to bring to life The Prince of Wales' vision.'
The heir to the throne gave the ambitious target of 2030 for nations to cut emissions, which he said is needed 'given the enormity of the problem we face'.
The prince also called for a financial recovery package, like the Marshall Plan that rebuilt post-war Europe, to help 'nature, people and planet'.
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Exclusive: Duchy estate bought Milton Keynes supermarket depot despite his famously forthright views on preserving traditional architecture and countryside
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The Prince bought the sprawling grey warehouse complex in Milton Keynes from an Anglo-Indian property fund, The Independent has established
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Prince Charles, renowned for his aversion to “monstrous carbuncle” buildings, has spent £38m on an industrial depot in Milton Keynes as part of a £102m series of confidential property deals, The Independent can reveal. The purchase of the vast supermarket warehouse through his estate – one of the single largest acquisitions by the Duchy of Cornwall in its 670-year history – was completed 18 months ago but has been kept from being made public.
A recent judicial ruling declared the Duchy to be a “public body” potentially liable to freedom of information rules.
But Clarence House has repeatedly refused to disclose any details of the expensive acquisition due to what the Prince’s officials said was the Duchy’s “private” status.
The Prince bought the sprawling grey warehouse complex in Milton Keynes from an Anglo-Indian property fund, The Independent has established. His tenants are Waitrose, who are using the depot as a lorry distribution hub. The deal offers a glimpse into the hard-nosed business ethos of the Duchy, established in the 14th century to provide an income for the Prince of Wales and his heirs, as well as the multiple layers of confidentiality and opaque procedure that govern the Prince’s commercial dealings.
Under an arrangement which is now being scrutinised by MPs, the Duchy is exempt from capital gains and corporation tax, saving it millions of pounds a year. Charles voluntarily pays income tax.
An investigation by The Independent has revealed that the Duchy, which is one of Britain’s largest private estates and owns more than 50,000 hectares of land, conducted property transactions worth at least £102m between 2009 and last December.
Any sale or purchase by the Prince worth more than £500,000 must be approved by the Treasury.
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The Duchy’s holdings of land and property form the bulk of its assets, worth £693m, and stretch across 23 counties, including most of the Scilly Isles, Dartmoor Prison, the Oval cricket ground in central London, a Holiday Inn in Reading and the Prince’s private homes such as Highgrove. To this extensive list has now been added property title BM191066, otherwise known as the Waitrose distribution centre in Brinklow, Milton Keynes, whose new owners are listed by the Land Registry as “His Royal Highness Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay, Earl of Chester and Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles and Great Steward of Scotland”, and the Duchy. The sale price was £38,385,500.
Like all other significant Duchy transactions, the deal in November 2011 with Indian property fund Meghraj Properties had to be approved by the Lord Commissioners of the Treasury, an ancient post held by Government whips.
The depot, built in 1993 to withstand 20 million lorry journeys over its lifetime, sits awkwardly with the heir to the throne’s well-publicised love of traditional architecture along with his emphasis on rural life and environmental sustainability.
The purchase of the 396,000 sq ft warehouse is not the first link between Charles and the John Lewis Partnership supermarket. A previous deal between the Duchy and Waitrose in 2009 saw it take over the once-troubled Duchy Originals organic food brand, which now generates more than £1m a year for the prince’s charities.
When The Independent yesterday approached Clarence House with evidence of the warehouse purchase, it insisted there was no connection with the Duchy Originals tie-up, adding it was a “coincidence” that Waitrose was the tenant of the industrial complex.
The revelations come at an uncomfortable time for the Duchy, which is facing a private members’ bill in the House of Lords demanding that its structure be radically overhauled and its surplus income – £18.3m last year – be distributed to Cornwall rather than to the heir to throne. The bill’s sponsor, Labour peer Lord Berkeley, says the Duchy is a “feudal anachronism”.
The day-to-day management of the Duchy, including investment decisions on commercial property such as the Waitrose warehouse purchase, is carried out by a professional managerial team. But it is widely known that Prince Charles takes a close personal interest in the running of the estate. In many ways, the estate, which transfers its handsome surplus every year to the heir to the throne to form the bulk of his income, is a paragon of success. Despite the global downturn, the Prince has defied the prevailing economic winds to grow the Duchy’s income every year since at least 2008 – to £26.5m last year. His estate’s total value has risen by 15 per cent to £764m.
Charles voluntarily pays income tax on the income he receives from the Duchy (last year he paid £4.5m to the tax man from incoming funds of £18.3m). He uses the money to fund himself and the Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Harry, a sizeable staff and his charitable activities.
But while the Duchy has been slickly managed, a growing number of critics say it has existed for too long in a constitutional no-man’s land where it discharges the duties of a public body, for example running the harbour authority on the Scilly Isles, and is subject to the financial scrutiny of Government whips, yet maintains it is a “private estate”. One benefit of this hybrid status is that the hereditary holding is exempt from both corporation and capital gains tax. The situation, which Clarence House insists is valid because the Duchy is “not a separate legal entity for tax purposes”, has led the powerful Commons public accounts committee, which is also investigating the tax affairs of Google and Starbucks, to demand answers from Treasury ministers as to whether the Prince’s exemptions are justified.
The Duchy is also fighting a separate attempt to force it to be more open about its workings. The Prince’s officials lost an important case before the Information Rights Tribunal, which after a three-year legal battle ruled that his estate was a “public authority” in performing its “primary function” to provide an income for the heir to the throne.
The landmark ruling could make the estate subject to the Freedom of Information Act. The Duchy is appealing. A spokeswoman said: “We do not agree that the Duchy performs functions of public administration. Hence we are appealing the ruling.”
Lord Berkeley, who lives in Cornwall, said there was a “conspiracy of silence” surrounding the status of the Duchy and it was time for a debate about its future: “The Duchy is a complete anachronism. It is feudal and I suspect many of those who work for it would say so if they felt able. It vacillates between being a private and a semi-public organisation according to its best advantage and yet there is no debate about how it should be best managed. It would seem to me that the Duchy would be a far better situation if it was turned into a public trust for the benefit of the people after which it is named.”
In a statement, a Duchy of Cornwall spokeswoman said: “The Duchy of Cornwall is a private estate, not a public body and is not funded by the taxpayer. The Prince of Wales chooses to use his private money from the estate to pay for his public duties, as well as those of the Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry.
“He also chooses to pay income tax on the income generated by The Duchy. The Duke of Cornwall manages the estate for present and future Dukes, and for the wider benefit of tenants, communities and the environment.”
Exclusive: Duchy estate bought Milton Keynes supermarket depot despite his famously forthright views on preserving traditional architecture and countryside
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Revealed: Prince Charles's secret property deals - including £38 million industrial carbuncle
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The Prince bought the sprawling grey warehouse complex in Milton Keynes from an Anglo-Indian property fund, The Independent has established
The Independent employs over 100 journalists around the world to bring you news you can trust. To support truly independent journalism, please consider making a contribution or taking a subscription.
Prince Charles, renowned for his aversion to “monstrous carbuncle” buildings, has spent £38m on an industrial depot in Milton Keynes as part of a £102m series of confidential property deals, The Independent can reveal. The purchase of the vast supermarket warehouse through his estate – one of the single largest acquisitions by the Duchy of Cornwall in its 670-year history – was completed 18 months ago but has been kept from being made public.
A recent judicial ruling declared the Duchy to be a “public body” potentially liable to freedom of information rules.
But Clarence House has repeatedly refused to disclose any details of the expensive acquisition due to what the Prince’s officials said was the Duchy’s “private” status.
The Prince bought the sprawling grey warehouse complex in Milton Keynes from an Anglo-Indian property fund, The Independent has established. His tenants are Waitrose, who are using the depot as a lorry distribution hub. The deal offers a glimpse into the hard-nosed business ethos of the Duchy, established in the 14th century to provide an income for the Prince of Wales and his heirs, as well as the multiple layers of confidentiality and opaque procedure that govern the Prince’s commercial dealings.
Under an arrangement which is now being scrutinised by MPs, the Duchy is exempt from capital gains and corporation tax, saving it millions of pounds a year. Charles voluntarily pays income tax.
An investigation by The Independent has revealed that the Duchy, which is one of Britain’s largest private estates and owns more than 50,000 hectares of land, conducted property transactions worth at least £102m between 2009 and last December.
Any sale or purchase by the Prince worth more than £500,000 must be approved by the Treasury.
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The Duchy’s holdings of land and property form the bulk of its assets, worth £693m, and stretch across 23 counties, including most of the Scilly Isles, Dartmoor Prison, the Oval cricket ground in central London, a Holiday Inn in Reading and the Prince’s private homes such as Highgrove. To this extensive list has now been added property title BM191066, otherwise known as the Waitrose distribution centre in Brinklow, Milton Keynes, whose new owners are listed by the Land Registry as “His Royal Highness Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay, Earl of Chester and Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles and Great Steward of Scotland”, and the Duchy. The sale price was £38,385,500.
Like all other significant Duchy transactions, the deal in November 2011 with Indian property fund Meghraj Properties had to be approved by the Lord Commissioners of the Treasury, an ancient post held by Government whips.
The depot, built in 1993 to withstand 20 million lorry journeys over its lifetime, sits awkwardly with the heir to the throne’s well-publicised love of traditional architecture along with his emphasis on rural life and environmental sustainability.
The purchase of the 396,000 sq ft warehouse is not the first link between Charles and the John Lewis Partnership supermarket. A previous deal between the Duchy and Waitrose in 2009 saw it take over the once-troubled Duchy Originals organic food brand, which now generates more than £1m a year for the prince’s charities.
When The Independent yesterday approached Clarence House with evidence of the warehouse purchase, it insisted there was no connection with the Duchy Originals tie-up, adding it was a “coincidence” that Waitrose was the tenant of the industrial complex.
The revelations come at an uncomfortable time for the Duchy, which is facing a private members’ bill in the House of Lords demanding that its structure be radically overhauled and its surplus income – £18.3m last year – be distributed to Cornwall rather than to the heir to throne. The bill’s sponsor, Labour peer Lord Berkeley, says the Duchy is a “feudal anachronism”.
The day-to-day management of the Duchy, including investment decisions on commercial property such as the Waitrose warehouse purchase, is carried out by a professional managerial team. But it is widely known that Prince Charles takes a close personal interest in the running of the estate. In many ways, the estate, which transfers its handsome surplus every year to the heir to the throne to form the bulk of his income, is a paragon of success. Despite the global downturn, the Prince has defied the prevailing economic winds to grow the Duchy’s income every year since at least 2008 – to £26.5m last year. His estate’s total value has risen by 15 per cent to £764m.
Charles voluntarily pays income tax on the income he receives from the Duchy (last year he paid £4.5m to the tax man from incoming funds of £18.3m). He uses the money to fund himself and the Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Harry, a sizeable staff and his charitable activities.
But while the Duchy has been slickly managed, a growing number of critics say it has existed for too long in a constitutional no-man’s land where it discharges the duties of a public body, for example running the harbour authority on the Scilly Isles, and is subject to the financial scrutiny of Government whips, yet maintains it is a “private estate”. One benefit of this hybrid status is that the hereditary holding is exempt from both corporation and capital gains tax. The situation, which Clarence House insists is valid because the Duchy is “not a separate legal entity for tax purposes”, has led the powerful Commons public accounts committee, which is also investigating the tax affairs of Google and Starbucks, to demand answers from Treasury ministers as to whether the Prince’s exemptions are justified.
The Duchy is also fighting a separate attempt to force it to be more open about its workings. The Prince’s officials lost an important case before the Information Rights Tribunal, which after a three-year legal battle ruled that his estate was a “public authority” in performing its “primary function” to provide an income for the heir to the throne.
The landmark ruling could make the estate subject to the Freedom of Information Act. The Duchy is appealing. A spokeswoman said: “We do not agree that the Duchy performs functions of public administration. Hence we are appealing the ruling.”
Lord Berkeley, who lives in Cornwall, said there was a “conspiracy of silence” surrounding the status of the Duchy and it was time for a debate about its future: “The Duchy is a complete anachronism. It is feudal and I suspect many of those who work for it would say so if they felt able. It vacillates between being a private and a semi-public organisation according to its best advantage and yet there is no debate about how it should be best managed. It would seem to me that the Duchy would be a far better situation if it was turned into a public trust for the benefit of the people after which it is named.”
In a statement, a Duchy of Cornwall spokeswoman said: “The Duchy of Cornwall is a private estate, not a public body and is not funded by the taxpayer. The Prince of Wales chooses to use his private money from the estate to pay for his public duties, as well as those of the Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry.
“He also chooses to pay income tax on the income generated by The Duchy. The Duke of Cornwall manages the estate for present and future Dukes, and for the wider benefit of tenants, communities and the environment.”
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Exclusive: Duchy estate bought Milton Keynes supermarket depot despite his famously forthright views on preserving traditional architecture and countryside
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/h ... 59596.html
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Saturday 15 June 2013 10:59
Revealed: Prince Charles's secret property deals - including £38 million industrial carbuncle
Show all 2
The Prince bought the sprawling grey warehouse complex in Milton Keynes from an Anglo-Indian property fund, The Independent has established
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Prince Charles, renowned for his aversion to “monstrous carbuncle” buildings, has spent £38m on an industrial depot in Milton Keynes as part of a £102m series of confidential property deals, The Independent can reveal. The purchase of the vast supermarket warehouse through his estate – one of the single largest acquisitions by the Duchy of Cornwall in its 670-year history – was completed 18 months ago but has been kept from being made public.
A recent judicial ruling declared the Duchy to be a “public body” potentially liable to freedom of information rules.
But Clarence House has repeatedly refused to disclose any details of the expensive acquisition due to what the Prince’s officials said was the Duchy’s “private” status.
The Prince bought the sprawling grey warehouse complex in Milton Keynes from an Anglo-Indian property fund, The Independent has established. His tenants are Waitrose, who are using the depot as a lorry distribution hub. The deal offers a glimpse into the hard-nosed business ethos of the Duchy, established in the 14th century to provide an income for the Prince of Wales and his heirs, as well as the multiple layers of confidentiality and opaque procedure that govern the Prince’s commercial dealings.
Under an arrangement which is now being scrutinised by MPs, the Duchy is exempt from capital gains and corporation tax, saving it millions of pounds a year. Charles voluntarily pays income tax.
An investigation by The Independent has revealed that the Duchy, which is one of Britain’s largest private estates and owns more than 50,000 hectares of land, conducted property transactions worth at least £102m between 2009 and last December.
Any sale or purchase by the Prince worth more than £500,000 must be approved by the Treasury.
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The Duchy’s holdings of land and property form the bulk of its assets, worth £693m, and stretch across 23 counties, including most of the Scilly Isles, Dartmoor Prison, the Oval cricket ground in central London, a Holiday Inn in Reading and the Prince’s private homes such as Highgrove. To this extensive list has now been added property title BM191066, otherwise known as the Waitrose distribution centre in Brinklow, Milton Keynes, whose new owners are listed by the Land Registry as “His Royal Highness Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay, Earl of Chester and Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles and Great Steward of Scotland”, and the Duchy. The sale price was £38,385,500.
Like all other significant Duchy transactions, the deal in November 2011 with Indian property fund Meghraj Properties had to be approved by the Lord Commissioners of the Treasury, an ancient post held by Government whips.
The depot, built in 1993 to withstand 20 million lorry journeys over its lifetime, sits awkwardly with the heir to the throne’s well-publicised love of traditional architecture along with his emphasis on rural life and environmental sustainability.
The purchase of the 396,000 sq ft warehouse is not the first link between Charles and the John Lewis Partnership supermarket. A previous deal between the Duchy and Waitrose in 2009 saw it take over the once-troubled Duchy Originals organic food brand, which now generates more than £1m a year for the prince’s charities.
When The Independent yesterday approached Clarence House with evidence of the warehouse purchase, it insisted there was no connection with the Duchy Originals tie-up, adding it was a “coincidence” that Waitrose was the tenant of the industrial complex.
The revelations come at an uncomfortable time for the Duchy, which is facing a private members’ bill in the House of Lords demanding that its structure be radically overhauled and its surplus income – £18.3m last year – be distributed to Cornwall rather than to the heir to throne. The bill’s sponsor, Labour peer Lord Berkeley, says the Duchy is a “feudal anachronism”.
The day-to-day management of the Duchy, including investment decisions on commercial property such as the Waitrose warehouse purchase, is carried out by a professional managerial team. But it is widely known that Prince Charles takes a close personal interest in the running of the estate. In many ways, the estate, which transfers its handsome surplus every year to the heir to the throne to form the bulk of his income, is a paragon of success. Despite the global downturn, the Prince has defied the prevailing economic winds to grow the Duchy’s income every year since at least 2008 – to £26.5m last year. His estate’s total value has risen by 15 per cent to £764m.
Charles voluntarily pays income tax on the income he receives from the Duchy (last year he paid £4.5m to the tax man from incoming funds of £18.3m). He uses the money to fund himself and the Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Harry, a sizeable staff and his charitable activities.
But while the Duchy has been slickly managed, a growing number of critics say it has existed for too long in a constitutional no-man’s land where it discharges the duties of a public body, for example running the harbour authority on the Scilly Isles, and is subject to the financial scrutiny of Government whips, yet maintains it is a “private estate”. One benefit of this hybrid status is that the hereditary holding is exempt from both corporation and capital gains tax. The situation, which Clarence House insists is valid because the Duchy is “not a separate legal entity for tax purposes”, has led the powerful Commons public accounts committee, which is also investigating the tax affairs of Google and Starbucks, to demand answers from Treasury ministers as to whether the Prince’s exemptions are justified.
The Duchy is also fighting a separate attempt to force it to be more open about its workings. The Prince’s officials lost an important case before the Information Rights Tribunal, which after a three-year legal battle ruled that his estate was a “public authority” in performing its “primary function” to provide an income for the heir to the throne.
The landmark ruling could make the estate subject to the Freedom of Information Act. The Duchy is appealing. A spokeswoman said: “We do not agree that the Duchy performs functions of public administration. Hence we are appealing the ruling.”
Lord Berkeley, who lives in Cornwall, said there was a “conspiracy of silence” surrounding the status of the Duchy and it was time for a debate about its future: “The Duchy is a complete anachronism. It is feudal and I suspect many of those who work for it would say so if they felt able. It vacillates between being a private and a semi-public organisation according to its best advantage and yet there is no debate about how it should be best managed. It would seem to me that the Duchy would be a far better situation if it was turned into a public trust for the benefit of the people after which it is named.”
In a statement, a Duchy of Cornwall spokeswoman said: “The Duchy of Cornwall is a private estate, not a public body and is not funded by the taxpayer. The Prince of Wales chooses to use his private money from the estate to pay for his public duties, as well as those of the Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry.
“He also chooses to pay income tax on the income generated by The Duchy. The Duke of Cornwall manages the estate for present and future Dukes, and for the wider benefit of tenants, communities and the environment.”
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The Prince bought the sprawling grey warehouse complex in Milton Keynes from an Anglo-Indian property fund, The Independent has established
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Prince Charles, renowned for his aversion to “monstrous carbuncle” buildings, has spent £38m on an industrial depot in Milton Keynes as part of a £102m series of confidential property deals, The Independent can reveal. The purchase of the vast supermarket warehouse through his estate – one of the single largest acquisitions by the Duchy of Cornwall in its 670-year history – was completed 18 months ago but has been kept from being made public.
A recent judicial ruling declared the Duchy to be a “public body” potentially liable to freedom of information rules.
But Clarence House has repeatedly refused to disclose any details of the expensive acquisition due to what the Prince’s officials said was the Duchy’s “private” status.
The Prince bought the sprawling grey warehouse complex in Milton Keynes from an Anglo-Indian property fund, The Independent has established. His tenants are Waitrose, who are using the depot as a lorry distribution hub. The deal offers a glimpse into the hard-nosed business ethos of the Duchy, established in the 14th century to provide an income for the Prince of Wales and his heirs, as well as the multiple layers of confidentiality and opaque procedure that govern the Prince’s commercial dealings.
Under an arrangement which is now being scrutinised by MPs, the Duchy is exempt from capital gains and corporation tax, saving it millions of pounds a year. Charles voluntarily pays income tax.
An investigation by The Independent has revealed that the Duchy, which is one of Britain’s largest private estates and owns more than 50,000 hectares of land, conducted property transactions worth at least £102m between 2009 and last December.
Any sale or purchase by the Prince worth more than £500,000 must be approved by the Treasury.
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The Duchy’s holdings of land and property form the bulk of its assets, worth £693m, and stretch across 23 counties, including most of the Scilly Isles, Dartmoor Prison, the Oval cricket ground in central London, a Holiday Inn in Reading and the Prince’s private homes such as Highgrove. To this extensive list has now been added property title BM191066, otherwise known as the Waitrose distribution centre in Brinklow, Milton Keynes, whose new owners are listed by the Land Registry as “His Royal Highness Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay, Earl of Chester and Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles and Great Steward of Scotland”, and the Duchy. The sale price was £38,385,500.
Like all other significant Duchy transactions, the deal in November 2011 with Indian property fund Meghraj Properties had to be approved by the Lord Commissioners of the Treasury, an ancient post held by Government whips.
The depot, built in 1993 to withstand 20 million lorry journeys over its lifetime, sits awkwardly with the heir to the throne’s well-publicised love of traditional architecture along with his emphasis on rural life and environmental sustainability.
The purchase of the 396,000 sq ft warehouse is not the first link between Charles and the John Lewis Partnership supermarket. A previous deal between the Duchy and Waitrose in 2009 saw it take over the once-troubled Duchy Originals organic food brand, which now generates more than £1m a year for the prince’s charities.
When The Independent yesterday approached Clarence House with evidence of the warehouse purchase, it insisted there was no connection with the Duchy Originals tie-up, adding it was a “coincidence” that Waitrose was the tenant of the industrial complex.
The revelations come at an uncomfortable time for the Duchy, which is facing a private members’ bill in the House of Lords demanding that its structure be radically overhauled and its surplus income – £18.3m last year – be distributed to Cornwall rather than to the heir to throne. The bill’s sponsor, Labour peer Lord Berkeley, says the Duchy is a “feudal anachronism”.
The day-to-day management of the Duchy, including investment decisions on commercial property such as the Waitrose warehouse purchase, is carried out by a professional managerial team. But it is widely known that Prince Charles takes a close personal interest in the running of the estate. In many ways, the estate, which transfers its handsome surplus every year to the heir to the throne to form the bulk of his income, is a paragon of success. Despite the global downturn, the Prince has defied the prevailing economic winds to grow the Duchy’s income every year since at least 2008 – to £26.5m last year. His estate’s total value has risen by 15 per cent to £764m.
Charles voluntarily pays income tax on the income he receives from the Duchy (last year he paid £4.5m to the tax man from incoming funds of £18.3m). He uses the money to fund himself and the Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Harry, a sizeable staff and his charitable activities.
But while the Duchy has been slickly managed, a growing number of critics say it has existed for too long in a constitutional no-man’s land where it discharges the duties of a public body, for example running the harbour authority on the Scilly Isles, and is subject to the financial scrutiny of Government whips, yet maintains it is a “private estate”. One benefit of this hybrid status is that the hereditary holding is exempt from both corporation and capital gains tax. The situation, which Clarence House insists is valid because the Duchy is “not a separate legal entity for tax purposes”, has led the powerful Commons public accounts committee, which is also investigating the tax affairs of Google and Starbucks, to demand answers from Treasury ministers as to whether the Prince’s exemptions are justified.
The Duchy is also fighting a separate attempt to force it to be more open about its workings. The Prince’s officials lost an important case before the Information Rights Tribunal, which after a three-year legal battle ruled that his estate was a “public authority” in performing its “primary function” to provide an income for the heir to the throne.
The landmark ruling could make the estate subject to the Freedom of Information Act. The Duchy is appealing. A spokeswoman said: “We do not agree that the Duchy performs functions of public administration. Hence we are appealing the ruling.”
Lord Berkeley, who lives in Cornwall, said there was a “conspiracy of silence” surrounding the status of the Duchy and it was time for a debate about its future: “The Duchy is a complete anachronism. It is feudal and I suspect many of those who work for it would say so if they felt able. It vacillates between being a private and a semi-public organisation according to its best advantage and yet there is no debate about how it should be best managed. It would seem to me that the Duchy would be a far better situation if it was turned into a public trust for the benefit of the people after which it is named.”
In a statement, a Duchy of Cornwall spokeswoman said: “The Duchy of Cornwall is a private estate, not a public body and is not funded by the taxpayer. The Prince of Wales chooses to use his private money from the estate to pay for his public duties, as well as those of the Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry.
“He also chooses to pay income tax on the income generated by The Duchy. The Duke of Cornwall manages the estate for present and future Dukes, and for the wider benefit of tenants, communities and the environment.”
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All credit for eschatological conclusions on this video goes to Tim Cohen and Monte Judah. Tim Cohen published in 1998 a book called The AntiChrist and a Cup of Tea. Cohen will publish soon the second updated edition for this book, as well as some other books. I have studied this Cohen and Judah's original theory about Prince Charles as the final Antichrist of Bible prophecy, since 2003, and I have published also two books on this topic in my mother tongue Finnish. First one was 700 pages unpublished manuscript and second one is 356 pages
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Prophecy fulfillment #1
The first prophecy and its fulfillment in Prince Charles were following:
The Antichrist arises during that generation that sees Israel’s national revival (Ezek. 36:24: Matt. 24:32-34, 2 Thess. 2:4). Fulfillment: Prince Charles was born the same year as Israel became the independent nation from the British Empire in 1948; for the first time since the Kingdom of Israel and Judah and 2,500 years of diaspora.
Prophecy fulfillment #2
Prophecy: The Antichrist is a prince within the boundaries of the ancient Roman Empire (Dan. 9: 26-27). Fulfillment: Charles is the Prince of Wales (England and Wales belonged to the north-western provinces of Roman Empire).
Prophecy fulfillment #3
Prophecy: Antichrist is associated with ”the people of the prince that shall come [and] shall destroy the city and the sanctuary”, i.e. to the Prince of Romans (Dan. 9:27, Luke 21:20). Fulfillment: After Germanic tribes invaded the Western Roman Empire, Wales maintained its independence and Roman heritage yet for many Centuries; for this reason, its name derives from the old Germanic word which means ”Romans”. Thus, the title ”Prince of Wales” signifies etymologically and also ethnically the Prince of Romans.
Prophecy fulfillment #4
Prophecy: Many Bible verses calls the Antichrist as a ”man” (Dan. 7:8, 2 Thess. 2:3, Rev. 13:18). Fulfillment: Name ”Charles” is derived from an ancient Germanic word for a man.
Prophecy fulfillment #5
Prophecy: The name of the Antichrist should count up 666 by using Greek-Hebrew gematria (Rev. 13:18). Fulfillment: Prince Charles’ official title Charles, Prince of Wales, sums up 666 both in English and Hebrew by using the decimal system of Hebrew-Greek gematria (what earliest Church Fathers also used).
Prophecy fulfillment #6
Prophecy: Dan. 9:27, Dan. 7:8 and Rev. 17:9-13 accociates the Antichrist with the Roman Emperors. Fulfillment: As a descendant of Charles the Great, Prince Charles has the legal right to the crown of the Holy Roman Emperors.
Prophecy fulfillment #7
Prophecy: Dan. 8:8-9 – in its first and second fulfillment – link the Antichrist with the King of Greece, heir to the Alexander the Great and Emperor Heraclius of Eastern Roman Empire (in fact medieval Grecian Empire which was foreseen in Daniel 7, 8 and 11). In its first phase the vision about the Little Horn of Daniel 8 fulfilled in Antiochos Epiphanes of Seleucide Empire and in its second phase the Little Horn of Daniel 8 fulfilled in Turkish Ottoman Empire, successor state of the Byzantine Empire. So the final Antichrist (the Little Horn of Daniel 8) is connected those both modern Greece and modern Islamic world. Fulfillment: Prince Charles descends from his father’s side of the Royal House of the modern Greece. He descends also from ”Prophet” Muhammad and is well-known pro-arabist and the defender of Islam (possibly a Christian apostate who may have turned to Sufism, Islamic mysticism, whose conversion some Islamic eschatologists has already seen the decisive sign of the closeness of Mahdi’s appearance).
Prophecy interpretation #8
Prophecy: The Antichrist is also associated with the Syria/Babylon (Isaiah 14:4-25). Fulfillment: England represents end-time parallel for ancient Babylon (Dan. 7:4); The king of Babylon in Isa. 14:4-25 therefore means the king of UK. Some believe that the Anglo-American world power (end-time Babylon) moves its economic and political hegemony to Iraq as a fulfillment of Zech. 5:11. See prophecy fulfillment #7
Prophecy fulfillment #9
Prophecy: The Antichrist must ”fulfill” the expectations of Jews for their awaited Messiah (John 5:43, Luke 21: 8, 1 John 2:18). Fulfillment: Just like Jesus, Charles, who as a child was circumcised by the Jewish rabbi, can trace his lineage back to King David of Israel as a ”fulfillment” Jes. 11:1.
Prophecy fulfillment #10
Prophecy: Alongside the Jews, the Antichrist must fulfill the Messianic expectations of all false religions (Rev. 13:8). Fulfillment: Prince Charles descends from Muhammad’s lineage as prerequisite for Islamic Mahdi and is a prominent Western leader who defends all world religions, including Tibetan Buddhist community against the Chinese occupation (the Messiah of Buddhist eschatology is often interpreted as the Western leader). He is also perfectly suitable for the character of the ”New Age Messiah” Maitreya, in terms of his history, residence, worldview and mission.
Prophecy fulfillment #11
Prophecy: The Antichrist deceives the Jews, who are returned to their fathers land and established the state of Israel, into deceitful ”peace treaty” with their Islamic Arab neighbors who seek their destruction (Dan. 9:27). Fulfillment: Prince Charles had a significant role in the implementation of the Oslo ”Peace” Accord (in 1993 and 1995), which is why the British Foreign Office has used him as a Middle East peace envoy. It has been also said that he will not visit the Israeli soil until a peace agreement has been reached between Israelis and Palestinians.
Prophecy fulfillment #12
Prophecy: The deceptive nature of Antichrist is revealed to the Jews in the midst of the 70th week when he will arrive in Jerusalem to abolish sacrifice and the oblation on the third temple and instigate the satanic persecution of the Jews for three and a half years (Dan. 8:11, 9:27, 11:31, 2 Matt. 24:15, Luke 21:20, 2 Thessalonians 2:4, Rev 11:2, 12:14). Fulfillment: Prince Charles descends from a family with strong ties to the Third Reich. In his private discussions, he has shown disdain for the Jewish state of Israel and secretly supported the openly antisemitic Hamas.
Prophecy fulfillment #13
Prophecy: The Antichrist receives global authority from all nations, peoples and tribes of the world (Rev. 13:7). Fulfillment: Prince Charles comes from a family that has been at the top of luciferian freemasonry for more than two centuries and has led an plan of Bavarian Illuminati to build one world government, world economy and world religion under the British Crown. Prince Charles has been personally at the forefront of such effort and campaigned for a one world government and urged the all nations, peoples and tribes to join the global revolution to create a new global world order.
Prophecy fulfillment #14
Prophecy: The most significant change in the new world order of the Beast will be the creation of a global economic system in which no one can buy or sell without the mark of the beast in/on the right hand or the forehead (Rev 13:16 – 18). Fulfillment: Prince Charles has called for a reform of the global capitalist economic system. He was also the first person to show public support for the human RFID (Radio-frequency identification) technology by microchipping his sons William and Harry in 1995, and has collaborated with Walmart, world’s largest retailer, to extend RFID technology to all areas of global trading.
Prophecy fulfillment #15
Prophecy: The Antichrist speak to the masses via a living and speaking image through which all peoples on the earth can worship him simultaneously (Rev. 13:14 – 15). Fulfillment: Charles’ appearance at the Abu Dhabi energy conference in the form of a hologram was the first event that gave great attention to the modern hologram technology which is based on Victorian era’s pepper’s ghost’s illusion and which way Rapper Tupac (2012) and pop legend Michael Jackson (2014) has been ”raised from the dead”.
Prophecy fulfillment #16
Prophecy: In Revelation, the Antichrist is symbolized by the red dragon and leopard-bear-lion hybrid beast (Rev. 12:9, 13:2). Fulfillment: The Red Dragon of Wales is the personal Heraldic emblem for Prince of Wales in his coat of arms, which also includes a rampant guardant lion, which is defined as a lion-leopard or leopard-lion beast in a French heraldry.
Prophecy fulfillment #17
Prophecy: According to Revelation 13:2, the Red Dragon or Satan gives the Beast ”his power and his throne and great authority”. Fulfillment: When Charles was formally inaugurated the Prince of Wales at Caernarfon Castle in 1969, he swore his Oath of allegiance on bended knees before the the throne that represent the Welsh Red Dragon, after which he sat on its right side.
Prophecy fulfillment #18
Prophecy: The Antichrist should surrender to a personal union with Lucifer in order to receive his power, his throne, and his great authority (Luke 4:5-8, Rev. 13:2). Fulfillment: Prince Charles can be associated with an occult cabal who is not interested only in spiritism and all kinds of dark spirituality, but who is also at the top of the occult hierarchy of masons, witches and Illuminati to prepare the planet earth for the reign of Satan and his fallen angels when he is cast out into the earth after the great war in heavens (Rev. 12:9).
Prophecy fulfillment #19
Prophecy: When Satan has been thrown in the midst of the Tribulation period with his fallen angels on the earth, ”Woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has only a short time.” (Revelation 12:12). Fulfillment: Like his father Prince Philip, Charles is a notorious on his support for depopulation and eco-fascism, and who proclaims in his book Harmony: ”We cannot make the equation balance, unless we seriously address how we stabilize and even reduce the human population of the world…this, of course, raises some very difficult moral questions.” In this statement, Prince calls the mass murder of the world’s human population on a historically unprecedented proportions.
Prophecy fulfillment #20
Prophecy: The Antichrist show no regard for the God of his fathers or any other god, but ”magnify himself above all” (Dan 11:37). Fulfillment: Prince Charles has not shown interest or respect for the reformed Christian religion of his fathers that his predecessors have honored with their lips, if not with their hearts. This is reflected in Charles’s attitude to the protestant Christian tradition of his country. He does not agree to swear his coming oath of coronation in the name of Jesus Christ and Christianity, but in the name of all religions. He also magnify only himself above all gods as Damien Thompson, Graham Smith, and others have already noticed.
Prophecy fulfillment #21
Prophecy: The Antichrist declares himself to be God in the rebuilt temple of Jerusalem (2 Thess. 2:4). Fulfillment: Prince Charles has spoken openly about his pantheistic worldview which teach that natural world is not separated from God but is identical with Him; that everything in nature is divine or godlike, including every human being. He has also repeatedly referred to his own godlike Messianic qualities. In addition, he has a close connection with Jerusalem’s Temple Mount; his Prince’s School of Traditional Arts arranged reconstruction of the medieval Saladin’s Prayer Pulpit at the Al-Aqsa mosque when some of its ornaments disappeared in the fire of 1969.
Prophecy fulfillment #22
Prophecy: Instead of the God of Israel, the Antichrist honors the god of fortresses; a god who manifest himself by temples or other religious places of worship, contrary to the God of Bible who ”does not dwell in temples made with hands” (Dan 11:38-39, Acts 17:24). Fulfillment: Prince Charles is believer in philosophy of the ”sacred geometry” which teaches that a connection to God is possibly to find universally, and apart from doctrinal differences between different faiths, through sacred buildings whose architecture respects certain geometric patterns such as the universal symbols of satanism and witchcraft, five-pointed star or pentagram (see Harmony, Chapter 3, pages 114 -18).
Prophecy fulfillment #23
Prophecy: ”Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.” (Dan. 11:37) Many have interpreted that expression ”…nor the desire of women” means that the Antichrist is either a homosexual or emotionally deprived person who is unable to respond to the romantic love of women. Fulfillment: Prince Charles is best remembered for his indifferent relationship with Princess Diana and for his inability to respond to Diana’s love, which was illustrated well in Charles’s rhetorical question ”Whatever in love means.” According to recent rumors Charles’ marriage with Camilla may be also mere set to conceal his homosexual partners. Allegedly these rumors are supported in Diana’s own revelations, that are believed to have been filmed in secret video tapes, which Princess of Wales was going to publish just before her death and for which reason he was murdered in a ”car accident” for her husband’s behest in August 31, 1997.
Prophecy fulfillment #24
Prophecy: A word ”Antichrist”, antichristos, does not only mean one who opposes Christ, but who is also His substitute (in place of Him) and His opposite. Fulfillment: When Jesus loves His Bride (i.e. the Church) and is faithful to her, Charles did not love his wife but cheated her with another woman. When Jesus gave His life for Bride as God’s sacrificial Lamb to redeem her from an everlasting Hell, Charles took his wife’s life and made her feel in their wedding day, according to Diana’s own words, that she was a ”lamb going to the slaughter.” She also told Paul Burrel just before her death: ”I have been battered, bruised and abused mentally by a system for 15 years now . . . Thank you, Charles for putting me through such hell and for giving me the opportunity to learn from the cruel things you have done to me.”
Prophecy fulfillment #25
Prophecy: According to second fulfillment phase of the vision of Daniel 11, the Antichrist is a despised crown prince who rises to the throne of United Kingdom after its previous Kings George V and George VI and will continues his fathers imperialist policy in the Middle East (Daniel 11:2-45). Fulfillment: Charles became one of the most despiced crown princes in British history after the Camillagate of 1993. His line of succession set him to be the next king of England after his grandfather George VI. Charles has also expressed that he hopes to restore Britain’s glorious past and his brother, Andrew, want that Britain would continue the Great Game of the 19th Century against Russia and China in the Middle- and Far-East.
Prophecy fulfillment #26
Prophecy: The Antichrist set himself in the place of and against Christ. He creates around himself a global cult of personality that overshadow all previous personality cults of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Kim dynasty of NK, etc. (1. John 2:18, Revelation 13:8) Fulfillment: Prince Charles believes that he is born for purpose and that is saving of the world. As Graham Smith, of the anti-monarchy group Republic, puts it: ”He is under the impression he has been sent to save the world and deliver us from our sins. It’s quite delusional.” To many leftists he is now a great visionary and and almost messianic world leader. He has even expressed that the ultimate motive behind his all actions is the belief that his duty is ”to heal the mortally wounded soul” so that ”the temple of our humanity can once again be lit by a sacred flame” (Lorimer, page 235).
Prophecy fulfillment #27
The fraudulence of the Antichrist’s ”Salvation” message will reveal to the whole world when he provokes China with her Eastern allies against the Western Hemisphere, causing the most terrifying war in the history of mankind, Armageddon (Daniel 11:44, Rev. 16:12-16). Fulfillment: Along with his brother Andrew, Charles is also interested in continuing the Great Game with other Super Powers over the control of Middle East’s and Central Asian’s natural resources. He has concealed this geopolitical strategy against China to the apparent ”humanitarian” concern of Tibet under the Chinese occupation. He has boycotted and insulted Chinese leaders on several occasions in the aim to restore the British imperialist influence in the Far East, which it lost in 1997 when Great Britain transferred the sovereignty of Hong Kong from United Kingdon to China. In Prince’s private letters which came to the public in 2004, he moaned this as a great tragedy.
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Prophecy fulfillment #1
The first prophecy and its fulfillment in Prince Charles were following:
The Antichrist arises during that generation that sees Israel’s national revival (Ezek. 36:24: Matt. 24:32-34, 2 Thess. 2:4). Fulfillment: Prince Charles was born the same year as Israel became the independent nation from the British Empire in 1948; for the first time since the Kingdom of Israel and Judah and 2,500 years of diaspora.
Prophecy fulfillment #2
Prophecy: The Antichrist is a prince within the boundaries of the ancient Roman Empire (Dan. 9: 26-27). Fulfillment: Charles is the Prince of Wales (England and Wales belonged to the north-western provinces of Roman Empire).
Prophecy fulfillment #3
Prophecy: Antichrist is associated with ”the people of the prince that shall come [and] shall destroy the city and the sanctuary”, i.e. to the Prince of Romans (Dan. 9:27, Luke 21:20). Fulfillment: After Germanic tribes invaded the Western Roman Empire, Wales maintained its independence and Roman heritage yet for many Centuries; for this reason, its name derives from the old Germanic word which means ”Romans”. Thus, the title ”Prince of Wales” signifies etymologically and also ethnically the Prince of Romans.
Prophecy fulfillment #4
Prophecy: Many Bible verses calls the Antichrist as a ”man” (Dan. 7:8, 2 Thess. 2:3, Rev. 13:18). Fulfillment: Name ”Charles” is derived from an ancient Germanic word for a man.
Prophecy fulfillment #5
Prophecy: The name of the Antichrist should count up 666 by using Greek-Hebrew gematria (Rev. 13:18). Fulfillment: Prince Charles’ official title Charles, Prince of Wales, sums up 666 both in English and Hebrew by using the decimal system of Hebrew-Greek gematria (what earliest Church Fathers also used).
Prophecy fulfillment #6
Prophecy: Dan. 9:27, Dan. 7:8 and Rev. 17:9-13 accociates the Antichrist with the Roman Emperors. Fulfillment: As a descendant of Charles the Great, Prince Charles has the legal right to the crown of the Holy Roman Emperors.
Prophecy fulfillment #7
Prophecy: Dan. 8:8-9 – in its first and second fulfillment – link the Antichrist with the King of Greece, heir to the Alexander the Great and Emperor Heraclius of Eastern Roman Empire (in fact medieval Grecian Empire which was foreseen in Daniel 7, 8 and 11). In its first phase the vision about the Little Horn of Daniel 8 fulfilled in Antiochos Epiphanes of Seleucide Empire and in its second phase the Little Horn of Daniel 8 fulfilled in Turkish Ottoman Empire, successor state of the Byzantine Empire. So the final Antichrist (the Little Horn of Daniel 8) is connected those both modern Greece and modern Islamic world. Fulfillment: Prince Charles descends from his father’s side of the Royal House of the modern Greece. He descends also from ”Prophet” Muhammad and is well-known pro-arabist and the defender of Islam (possibly a Christian apostate who may have turned to Sufism, Islamic mysticism, whose conversion some Islamic eschatologists has already seen the decisive sign of the closeness of Mahdi’s appearance).
Prophecy interpretation #8
Prophecy: The Antichrist is also associated with the Syria/Babylon (Isaiah 14:4-25). Fulfillment: England represents end-time parallel for ancient Babylon (Dan. 7:4); The king of Babylon in Isa. 14:4-25 therefore means the king of UK. Some believe that the Anglo-American world power (end-time Babylon) moves its economic and political hegemony to Iraq as a fulfillment of Zech. 5:11. See prophecy fulfillment #7
Prophecy fulfillment #9
Prophecy: The Antichrist must ”fulfill” the expectations of Jews for their awaited Messiah (John 5:43, Luke 21: 8, 1 John 2:18). Fulfillment: Just like Jesus, Charles, who as a child was circumcised by the Jewish rabbi, can trace his lineage back to King David of Israel as a ”fulfillment” Jes. 11:1.
Prophecy fulfillment #10
Prophecy: Alongside the Jews, the Antichrist must fulfill the Messianic expectations of all false religions (Rev. 13:8). Fulfillment: Prince Charles descends from Muhammad’s lineage as prerequisite for Islamic Mahdi and is a prominent Western leader who defends all world religions, including Tibetan Buddhist community against the Chinese occupation (the Messiah of Buddhist eschatology is often interpreted as the Western leader). He is also perfectly suitable for the character of the ”New Age Messiah” Maitreya, in terms of his history, residence, worldview and mission.
Prophecy fulfillment #11
Prophecy: The Antichrist deceives the Jews, who are returned to their fathers land and established the state of Israel, into deceitful ”peace treaty” with their Islamic Arab neighbors who seek their destruction (Dan. 9:27). Fulfillment: Prince Charles had a significant role in the implementation of the Oslo ”Peace” Accord (in 1993 and 1995), which is why the British Foreign Office has used him as a Middle East peace envoy. It has been also said that he will not visit the Israeli soil until a peace agreement has been reached between Israelis and Palestinians.
Prophecy fulfillment #12
Prophecy: The deceptive nature of Antichrist is revealed to the Jews in the midst of the 70th week when he will arrive in Jerusalem to abolish sacrifice and the oblation on the third temple and instigate the satanic persecution of the Jews for three and a half years (Dan. 8:11, 9:27, 11:31, 2 Matt. 24:15, Luke 21:20, 2 Thessalonians 2:4, Rev 11:2, 12:14). Fulfillment: Prince Charles descends from a family with strong ties to the Third Reich. In his private discussions, he has shown disdain for the Jewish state of Israel and secretly supported the openly antisemitic Hamas.
Prophecy fulfillment #13
Prophecy: The Antichrist receives global authority from all nations, peoples and tribes of the world (Rev. 13:7). Fulfillment: Prince Charles comes from a family that has been at the top of luciferian freemasonry for more than two centuries and has led an plan of Bavarian Illuminati to build one world government, world economy and world religion under the British Crown. Prince Charles has been personally at the forefront of such effort and campaigned for a one world government and urged the all nations, peoples and tribes to join the global revolution to create a new global world order.
Prophecy fulfillment #14
Prophecy: The most significant change in the new world order of the Beast will be the creation of a global economic system in which no one can buy or sell without the mark of the beast in/on the right hand or the forehead (Rev 13:16 – 18). Fulfillment: Prince Charles has called for a reform of the global capitalist economic system. He was also the first person to show public support for the human RFID (Radio-frequency identification) technology by microchipping his sons William and Harry in 1995, and has collaborated with Walmart, world’s largest retailer, to extend RFID technology to all areas of global trading.
Prophecy fulfillment #15
Prophecy: The Antichrist speak to the masses via a living and speaking image through which all peoples on the earth can worship him simultaneously (Rev. 13:14 – 15). Fulfillment: Charles’ appearance at the Abu Dhabi energy conference in the form of a hologram was the first event that gave great attention to the modern hologram technology which is based on Victorian era’s pepper’s ghost’s illusion and which way Rapper Tupac (2012) and pop legend Michael Jackson (2014) has been ”raised from the dead”.
Prophecy fulfillment #16
Prophecy: In Revelation, the Antichrist is symbolized by the red dragon and leopard-bear-lion hybrid beast (Rev. 12:9, 13:2). Fulfillment: The Red Dragon of Wales is the personal Heraldic emblem for Prince of Wales in his coat of arms, which also includes a rampant guardant lion, which is defined as a lion-leopard or leopard-lion beast in a French heraldry.
Prophecy fulfillment #17
Prophecy: According to Revelation 13:2, the Red Dragon or Satan gives the Beast ”his power and his throne and great authority”. Fulfillment: When Charles was formally inaugurated the Prince of Wales at Caernarfon Castle in 1969, he swore his Oath of allegiance on bended knees before the the throne that represent the Welsh Red Dragon, after which he sat on its right side.
Prophecy fulfillment #18
Prophecy: The Antichrist should surrender to a personal union with Lucifer in order to receive his power, his throne, and his great authority (Luke 4:5-8, Rev. 13:2). Fulfillment: Prince Charles can be associated with an occult cabal who is not interested only in spiritism and all kinds of dark spirituality, but who is also at the top of the occult hierarchy of masons, witches and Illuminati to prepare the planet earth for the reign of Satan and his fallen angels when he is cast out into the earth after the great war in heavens (Rev. 12:9).
Prophecy fulfillment #19
Prophecy: When Satan has been thrown in the midst of the Tribulation period with his fallen angels on the earth, ”Woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has only a short time.” (Revelation 12:12). Fulfillment: Like his father Prince Philip, Charles is a notorious on his support for depopulation and eco-fascism, and who proclaims in his book Harmony: ”We cannot make the equation balance, unless we seriously address how we stabilize and even reduce the human population of the world…this, of course, raises some very difficult moral questions.” In this statement, Prince calls the mass murder of the world’s human population on a historically unprecedented proportions.
Prophecy fulfillment #20
Prophecy: The Antichrist show no regard for the God of his fathers or any other god, but ”magnify himself above all” (Dan 11:37). Fulfillment: Prince Charles has not shown interest or respect for the reformed Christian religion of his fathers that his predecessors have honored with their lips, if not with their hearts. This is reflected in Charles’s attitude to the protestant Christian tradition of his country. He does not agree to swear his coming oath of coronation in the name of Jesus Christ and Christianity, but in the name of all religions. He also magnify only himself above all gods as Damien Thompson, Graham Smith, and others have already noticed.
Prophecy fulfillment #21
Prophecy: The Antichrist declares himself to be God in the rebuilt temple of Jerusalem (2 Thess. 2:4). Fulfillment: Prince Charles has spoken openly about his pantheistic worldview which teach that natural world is not separated from God but is identical with Him; that everything in nature is divine or godlike, including every human being. He has also repeatedly referred to his own godlike Messianic qualities. In addition, he has a close connection with Jerusalem’s Temple Mount; his Prince’s School of Traditional Arts arranged reconstruction of the medieval Saladin’s Prayer Pulpit at the Al-Aqsa mosque when some of its ornaments disappeared in the fire of 1969.
Prophecy fulfillment #22
Prophecy: Instead of the God of Israel, the Antichrist honors the god of fortresses; a god who manifest himself by temples or other religious places of worship, contrary to the God of Bible who ”does not dwell in temples made with hands” (Dan 11:38-39, Acts 17:24). Fulfillment: Prince Charles is believer in philosophy of the ”sacred geometry” which teaches that a connection to God is possibly to find universally, and apart from doctrinal differences between different faiths, through sacred buildings whose architecture respects certain geometric patterns such as the universal symbols of satanism and witchcraft, five-pointed star or pentagram (see Harmony, Chapter 3, pages 114 -18).
Prophecy fulfillment #23
Prophecy: ”Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.” (Dan. 11:37) Many have interpreted that expression ”…nor the desire of women” means that the Antichrist is either a homosexual or emotionally deprived person who is unable to respond to the romantic love of women. Fulfillment: Prince Charles is best remembered for his indifferent relationship with Princess Diana and for his inability to respond to Diana’s love, which was illustrated well in Charles’s rhetorical question ”Whatever in love means.” According to recent rumors Charles’ marriage with Camilla may be also mere set to conceal his homosexual partners. Allegedly these rumors are supported in Diana’s own revelations, that are believed to have been filmed in secret video tapes, which Princess of Wales was going to publish just before her death and for which reason he was murdered in a ”car accident” for her husband’s behest in August 31, 1997.
Prophecy fulfillment #24
Prophecy: A word ”Antichrist”, antichristos, does not only mean one who opposes Christ, but who is also His substitute (in place of Him) and His opposite. Fulfillment: When Jesus loves His Bride (i.e. the Church) and is faithful to her, Charles did not love his wife but cheated her with another woman. When Jesus gave His life for Bride as God’s sacrificial Lamb to redeem her from an everlasting Hell, Charles took his wife’s life and made her feel in their wedding day, according to Diana’s own words, that she was a ”lamb going to the slaughter.” She also told Paul Burrel just before her death: ”I have been battered, bruised and abused mentally by a system for 15 years now . . . Thank you, Charles for putting me through such hell and for giving me the opportunity to learn from the cruel things you have done to me.”
Prophecy fulfillment #25
Prophecy: According to second fulfillment phase of the vision of Daniel 11, the Antichrist is a despised crown prince who rises to the throne of United Kingdom after its previous Kings George V and George VI and will continues his fathers imperialist policy in the Middle East (Daniel 11:2-45). Fulfillment: Charles became one of the most despiced crown princes in British history after the Camillagate of 1993. His line of succession set him to be the next king of England after his grandfather George VI. Charles has also expressed that he hopes to restore Britain’s glorious past and his brother, Andrew, want that Britain would continue the Great Game of the 19th Century against Russia and China in the Middle- and Far-East.
Prophecy fulfillment #26
Prophecy: The Antichrist set himself in the place of and against Christ. He creates around himself a global cult of personality that overshadow all previous personality cults of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Kim dynasty of NK, etc. (1. John 2:18, Revelation 13:8) Fulfillment: Prince Charles believes that he is born for purpose and that is saving of the world. As Graham Smith, of the anti-monarchy group Republic, puts it: ”He is under the impression he has been sent to save the world and deliver us from our sins. It’s quite delusional.” To many leftists he is now a great visionary and and almost messianic world leader. He has even expressed that the ultimate motive behind his all actions is the belief that his duty is ”to heal the mortally wounded soul” so that ”the temple of our humanity can once again be lit by a sacred flame” (Lorimer, page 235).
Prophecy fulfillment #27
The fraudulence of the Antichrist’s ”Salvation” message will reveal to the whole world when he provokes China with her Eastern allies against the Western Hemisphere, causing the most terrifying war in the history of mankind, Armageddon (Daniel 11:44, Rev. 16:12-16). Fulfillment: Along with his brother Andrew, Charles is also interested in continuing the Great Game with other Super Powers over the control of Middle East’s and Central Asian’s natural resources. He has concealed this geopolitical strategy against China to the apparent ”humanitarian” concern of Tibet under the Chinese occupation. He has boycotted and insulted Chinese leaders on several occasions in the aim to restore the British imperialist influence in the Far East, which it lost in 1997 when Great Britain transferred the sovereignty of Hong Kong from United Kingdon to China. In Prince’s private letters which came to the public in 2004, he moaned this as a great tragedy.
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self-publishing (or Print on demand) Joka ei ollut saapa kuninkaan arvoa - Antikristus paljastettu? You can order this book from Amazon.com if you can read Finnish (what I seriously doubt). I have studied this hypothesis very passionately some 15 years now, and I have become more convinced about it after every passing year. I have a profound understanding of biblical eschatology and I have combined many different schools of interpretations in my books (which all lead to my conclusion about Charles as the final Antichrist candidate). I have published dozens blog articles in my website mainly in Finnish, but I have also two long articles written in English. This is one of them:
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Prince Charles aides fixed CBE for Saudi tycoon who gave £1.5m
Key adviser steps down over cash for royal residences
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/prin ... -0b5cb7qf2
The Prince of Wales appoints Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz a CBE during a private ceremony at Buckingham Palace in 2016
Gabriel Pogrund and Dipesh Gadher
Saturday September 04 2021, 7.55pm, The Sunday Times
One of Prince Charles’s closest aides quit last night after claims that he had fixed an honour for a Saudi tycoon who donated more than £1.5 million to royal charities.
Michael Fawcett, the prince’s former valet, stepped down temporarily as chief executive of the Prince’s Foundation after The Sunday Times provided evidence of Charles’s dealings with the businessman.
Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz paid tens of thousands of pounds to fixers with links to the prince who had told him they could secure the honour.
Charles, 72, gave Mahfouz, 51, his CBE at a private ceremony at Buckingham Palace in November 2016. The event was not published in the Court Circular, the official list of royal engagements.
Aides close to the prince and senior staff in his charities had helped the paid fixers to secure the CBE after Mahfouz donated large sums to restoration projects of interest to Charles.
Key adviser steps down over cash for royal residences
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/prin ... -0b5cb7qf2
The Prince of Wales appoints Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz a CBE during a private ceremony at Buckingham Palace in 2016
Gabriel Pogrund and Dipesh Gadher
Saturday September 04 2021, 7.55pm, The Sunday Times
One of Prince Charles’s closest aides quit last night after claims that he had fixed an honour for a Saudi tycoon who donated more than £1.5 million to royal charities.
Michael Fawcett, the prince’s former valet, stepped down temporarily as chief executive of the Prince’s Foundation after The Sunday Times provided evidence of Charles’s dealings with the businessman.
Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz paid tens of thousands of pounds to fixers with links to the prince who had told him they could secure the honour.
Charles, 72, gave Mahfouz, 51, his CBE at a private ceremony at Buckingham Palace in November 2016. The event was not published in the Court Circular, the official list of royal engagements.
Aides close to the prince and senior staff in his charities had helped the paid fixers to secure the CBE after Mahfouz donated large sums to restoration projects of interest to Charles.
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Husband of Prince Charles's florist 'killed himself because he thought she would leave him over debts'
By Julie Moult for MailOnline 14:38, 08 Oct 2009 ,
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David Lowe said it 'would be better off if he wasn't around anymore' but friends did not think he was being serious
The husband of Prince Charles's former florist killed himself because of money problems, an inquest heard yesterday.
David Lowe, 52, was found drowned in May after running up more than £30,000 in debt to revamp the home he shared with Sarah Champier-Lowe.
The financial pressure had driven the couple apart, friends said, and they were sleeping in separate beds.
Mrs Champier-Lowe, 50, was made redundant last month after 11 years of service at Charles's Highgrove estate near Tetbury in Gloucestershire.
She prepared floral arrangements there and was responsible for flowers and plants at the prince's organic produce shop.
Speaking at an inquest in Taunton, Somerset, yesterday, Mrs Champier-Lowe said she was not aware of the scale of the debts because her husband refused to discuss their finances.
'It was tight,' she said. 'But I wasn't really aware of not meeting our financial requirements. David looked after all of that. There was no communication about it.
'That was part of the problem. I couldn't get him to discuss, communicate those problems with me.
'He was very private about it. I only discovered the amounts on David's death.'
Breaking down into tears, she told the hearing she had not intended to leave her husband.
Sarah Champier-Lowe and her two daughters
Distraught: Sarah Champier-Lowe leaves the inquest with her two daughters. She told the inquest that her husband would not discuss his financial issues with her
Paul James, a close friend of the couple, said: 'They had moved into different rooms. They weren't getting along. There was a lack of communication and a lack of affection.
'He said that everyone would be better off if he wasn't around anymore, or if he just went and pulled up on a hill and finished it all.
'I told him that was a very stupid thing to contemplate.'
Jacqueline Bond, a lifelong friend of Mr Lowe, told the court that he told her in February that his wife 'wanted her freedom'.
Mr Lowe, a BT engineer, had been rebuilding the listed house the couple bought last September in Tetbury. He described it to friends as a money pit.
Mr Lowe was reported missing by his wife when he failed to return home from work on April 29.
Public appeals led to the discovery of his Vauxhall Astra at the Severn View service station on the M48 four days later.
Highgrove
Royal estate: Mrs Champier-Lowe was a florist at Prince Charles's home Highgrove and lived in nearby Tetbury with her husband
His body was recovered from the Bristol Channel near Burnham-on-Sea on May 25, some 35 miles down the Severn.
Recording a verdict of suicide, coroner Michael Rose said: 'By the end of last year there were mounting financial problems. Whether Mrs Champier-Lowe said she would have to leave him I rather suspect so.
'They were sleeping in separate bedrooms which for people of this age is unusual. But there were no clear indications to other people. There was nothing to alert anybody there of any action he was to take later that night.
'I believe he entered the water that night to take his own life.'
Mr Lowe had left his first wife Joy and their two children in 2001 to be with Mrs Champier-Lowe
By Julie Moult for MailOnline 14:38, 08 Oct 2009 ,
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... e-him.html
David Lowe said it 'would be better off if he wasn't around anymore' but friends did not think he was being serious
The husband of Prince Charles's former florist killed himself because of money problems, an inquest heard yesterday.
David Lowe, 52, was found drowned in May after running up more than £30,000 in debt to revamp the home he shared with Sarah Champier-Lowe.
The financial pressure had driven the couple apart, friends said, and they were sleeping in separate beds.
Mrs Champier-Lowe, 50, was made redundant last month after 11 years of service at Charles's Highgrove estate near Tetbury in Gloucestershire.
She prepared floral arrangements there and was responsible for flowers and plants at the prince's organic produce shop.
Speaking at an inquest in Taunton, Somerset, yesterday, Mrs Champier-Lowe said she was not aware of the scale of the debts because her husband refused to discuss their finances.
'It was tight,' she said. 'But I wasn't really aware of not meeting our financial requirements. David looked after all of that. There was no communication about it.
'That was part of the problem. I couldn't get him to discuss, communicate those problems with me.
'He was very private about it. I only discovered the amounts on David's death.'
Breaking down into tears, she told the hearing she had not intended to leave her husband.
Sarah Champier-Lowe and her two daughters
Distraught: Sarah Champier-Lowe leaves the inquest with her two daughters. She told the inquest that her husband would not discuss his financial issues with her
Paul James, a close friend of the couple, said: 'They had moved into different rooms. They weren't getting along. There was a lack of communication and a lack of affection.
'He said that everyone would be better off if he wasn't around anymore, or if he just went and pulled up on a hill and finished it all.
'I told him that was a very stupid thing to contemplate.'
Jacqueline Bond, a lifelong friend of Mr Lowe, told the court that he told her in February that his wife 'wanted her freedom'.
Mr Lowe, a BT engineer, had been rebuilding the listed house the couple bought last September in Tetbury. He described it to friends as a money pit.
Mr Lowe was reported missing by his wife when he failed to return home from work on April 29.
Public appeals led to the discovery of his Vauxhall Astra at the Severn View service station on the M48 four days later.
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Royal estate: Mrs Champier-Lowe was a florist at Prince Charles's home Highgrove and lived in nearby Tetbury with her husband
His body was recovered from the Bristol Channel near Burnham-on-Sea on May 25, some 35 miles down the Severn.
Recording a verdict of suicide, coroner Michael Rose said: 'By the end of last year there were mounting financial problems. Whether Mrs Champier-Lowe said she would have to leave him I rather suspect so.
'They were sleeping in separate bedrooms which for people of this age is unusual. But there were no clear indications to other people. There was nothing to alert anybody there of any action he was to take later that night.
'I believe he entered the water that night to take his own life.'
Mr Lowe had left his first wife Joy and their two children in 2001 to be with Mrs Champier-Lowe
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Prince Charles’s former aide steps down from charity amid Saudi honour controversy
Michael Fawcett has stepped down as chief executive of The Prince’s Foundation amid allegations he coordinated support for an honour to be given to Saudi businessman Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz
Michael Fawcett, former valet to Prince Charles, accompanies the Prince of Wales to Ascot in 2018
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September 5, 2021 11:12 am(Updated 11:13 am)
A former aide to the Prince of Wales has stepped down temporarily from The Prince’s Foundation, amid an investigation into allegations that he used his influence to help secure an honour for a major donor.
Michael Fawcett, a former assistant valet to Charles, has stepped down as chief executive of the charity after an investigation by The Sunday Times and Mail On Sunday alleged that he coordinated support for an honour to be given to Saudi businessman Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz.
Mr Mahfouz, 51, was given a CBE by Charles in a private ceremony at Buckingham Palace in 2016, according to The Sunday Times, after paying “tens of thousands of pounds to fixers with links to the prince who had told him they could secure the honour”.
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The donor, who is listed as a patron on The Prince’s Foundation website, had given large sums to restoration projects of particular interest to Charles. He denies any wrongdoing.
The newspaper quoted leaked correspondence from William Bortrick, the owner of Burke’s Peerage and one of Mr Mahfouz’s advisers, telling colleagues in 2014 that “more money will flow” after the businessman is granted an OBE.
The OBE, he said, was “promised” to Mr Mahfouz “to get the £1.5m he paid for Dumfries (House) and (The Castle of) Mey”.
He added: “MF (Michael Fawcett) needs to keep to his side of the bargain and sort out the Hon OBE immediately – then assist with citizenship.”
The Sunday Times said Mr Fawcett later helped to “upgrade” the proposed honour from an OBE to a CBE.
Douglas Connell, chair of The Prince’s Foundation, said: “Earlier today, Michael Fawcett offered to step down temporarily from active duties as chief executive of The Prince’s Foundation while the trustees’ investigation is ongoing.
“The Prince’s Foundation has accepted this offer. Michael fully supports the ongoing investigation and has confirmed that he will assist the investigation in every way.”
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It is understood that Emily Cherrington, chief operating officer, will take over in the interim, and that the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) has been informed as The Prince’s Foundation is a charity registered in Scotland.
A spokeswoman for The Prince’s Foundation said: “The Prince’s Foundation takes very seriously the allegations that have recently been brought to its attention and the matter is currently under investigation.
“We are incredibly proud of The Prince’s Foundation’s charitable work and the positive impact it has on our beneficiaries throughout the UK and across the world.
“Our education and training programmes, in particular, benefit more than 15,000 people every year, and provide our students with the skills and confidence needed to gain employment or start their own businesses.”
Former Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker wrote in the Mail: “It is the Prince of Wales, not Michael Fawcett, who has to answer questions now. His royal fingerprints are all over this.
“The monarchy has been seriously damaged by the dodgy activities of the boorish Prince Andrew and by the self-obsessed bleatings of Harry and Meghan.
“The Queen continues to command respect, but she will not go on forever.
“This morning, many will be asking themselves how Prince Charles can square such behaviour with the momentous responsibilities he is due to inherit one day.”
Mr Fawcett began his royal service in 1981 as a footman to the Queen, rising through the ranks to sergeant footman and then Charles’ assistant valet, setting out his bespoke suits and shirts every morning at Kensington Palace.
In 2003 he was cleared of financial misconduct allegations over the selling of royal gifts, but left his role after a report criticised his conduct.
Despite his departure from the royal household, he continued to have the prince’s patronage as a freelance fixer and party planner.
He was appointed chief executive of the Prince’s Foundation in 2018, following a reorganisation of Charles’ charities.
Michael Fawcett has stepped down as chief executive of The Prince’s Foundation amid allegations he coordinated support for an honour to be given to Saudi businessman Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz
Michael Fawcett, former valet to Prince Charles, accompanies the Prince of Wales to Ascot in 2018
Michael Fawcett, former valet to Prince Charles, accompanies the Prince of Wales to Ascot in 2018 (Photo: Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty)
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September 5, 2021 11:12 am(Updated 11:13 am)
A former aide to the Prince of Wales has stepped down temporarily from The Prince’s Foundation, amid an investigation into allegations that he used his influence to help secure an honour for a major donor.
Michael Fawcett, a former assistant valet to Charles, has stepped down as chief executive of the charity after an investigation by The Sunday Times and Mail On Sunday alleged that he coordinated support for an honour to be given to Saudi businessman Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz.
Mr Mahfouz, 51, was given a CBE by Charles in a private ceremony at Buckingham Palace in 2016, according to The Sunday Times, after paying “tens of thousands of pounds to fixers with links to the prince who had told him they could secure the honour”.
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The donor, who is listed as a patron on The Prince’s Foundation website, had given large sums to restoration projects of particular interest to Charles. He denies any wrongdoing.
The newspaper quoted leaked correspondence from William Bortrick, the owner of Burke’s Peerage and one of Mr Mahfouz’s advisers, telling colleagues in 2014 that “more money will flow” after the businessman is granted an OBE.
The OBE, he said, was “promised” to Mr Mahfouz “to get the £1.5m he paid for Dumfries (House) and (The Castle of) Mey”.
He added: “MF (Michael Fawcett) needs to keep to his side of the bargain and sort out the Hon OBE immediately – then assist with citizenship.”
The Sunday Times said Mr Fawcett later helped to “upgrade” the proposed honour from an OBE to a CBE.
Douglas Connell, chair of The Prince’s Foundation, said: “Earlier today, Michael Fawcett offered to step down temporarily from active duties as chief executive of The Prince’s Foundation while the trustees’ investigation is ongoing.
“The Prince’s Foundation has accepted this offer. Michael fully supports the ongoing investigation and has confirmed that he will assist the investigation in every way.”
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It is understood that Emily Cherrington, chief operating officer, will take over in the interim, and that the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) has been informed as The Prince’s Foundation is a charity registered in Scotland.
A spokeswoman for The Prince’s Foundation said: “The Prince’s Foundation takes very seriously the allegations that have recently been brought to its attention and the matter is currently under investigation.
“We are incredibly proud of The Prince’s Foundation’s charitable work and the positive impact it has on our beneficiaries throughout the UK and across the world.
“Our education and training programmes, in particular, benefit more than 15,000 people every year, and provide our students with the skills and confidence needed to gain employment or start their own businesses.”
Former Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker wrote in the Mail: “It is the Prince of Wales, not Michael Fawcett, who has to answer questions now. His royal fingerprints are all over this.
“The monarchy has been seriously damaged by the dodgy activities of the boorish Prince Andrew and by the self-obsessed bleatings of Harry and Meghan.
“The Queen continues to command respect, but she will not go on forever.
“This morning, many will be asking themselves how Prince Charles can square such behaviour with the momentous responsibilities he is due to inherit one day.”
Mr Fawcett began his royal service in 1981 as a footman to the Queen, rising through the ranks to sergeant footman and then Charles’ assistant valet, setting out his bespoke suits and shirts every morning at Kensington Palace.
In 2003 he was cleared of financial misconduct allegations over the selling of royal gifts, but left his role after a report criticised his conduct.
Despite his departure from the royal household, he continued to have the prince’s patronage as a freelance fixer and party planner.
He was appointed chief executive of the Prince’s Foundation in 2018, following a reorganisation of Charles’ charities.
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The Prince of Wales appoints Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz a CBE during a private ceremony at Buckingham Palace in 2016
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Saturday September 04 2021, 7.55pm, The Sunday Times
One of Prince Charles’s closest aides quit last night after claims that he had fixed an honour for a Saudi tycoon who donated more than £1.5 million to royal charities.
Michael Fawcett, the prince’s former valet, stepped down temporarily as chief executive of the Prince’s Foundation after The Sunday Times provided evidence of Charles’s dealings with the businessman.
Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz paid tens of thousands of pounds to fixers with links to the prince who had told him they could secure the honour.
Charles, 72, gave Mahfouz, 51, his CBE at a private ceremony at Buckingham Palace in November 2016. The event was not published in the Court Circular, the official list of royal engagements.
Aides close to the prince and senior staff in his charities had helped the paid fixers to secure the CBE after Mahfouz donated large sums to restoration projects of interest to Charles.
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Prince Charles wrote ‘sympathetic’ letter in support of Anthony Blunt after he was exposed as Russian spy
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Prince Charles, who was evidently unaware of Blunt’s treachery, wrote a personal letter to him at the height of the scandal, according to the art critic Brian Sewell
Anthony Blunt, British art historian and Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, who was later exposed as a former Soviet spy.
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October 4, 2021 7:00 am(Updated 9:38 am)
Prince Charles wrote a “sympathetic” letter in support of Anthony Blunt after he had been exposed as a Russian spy, a new book has revealed.
Blunt, a leading art historian and former Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, was publicly derided and dubbed the so-called “Traitor in the Palace” after Mrs Thatcher revealed his treachery in Parliament and stripped him of his knighthood in 1979.
Blunt was a member of the Cambridge Five, a spy ring who worked for the Soviet Union from the 1930s onwards causing extensive harm to British intelligence as well the deaths of many agents spying for Britain throughout eastern Europe.
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After his own recruitment, Blunt is said to have become a “talent spotter” identifying and recruiting other spies for Moscow. He confessed his spying in 1964 after being offered immunity from prosecution.
His exposure led to widespread vilification of him, including being barracked in the street.
Despite this, Prince Charles wrote a “supportive, sympathetic and regretful” letter to Blunt in 1979, according to new book Love & Deception: Philby in Beirut by author James Hanning.
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The Prince of Wales, Prince Charles. (Photo: Wattie Cheung/PA Wire)
The book, published this week, suggests Blunt forewarned fellow spy Kim Philby while he was in Beirut that he was about to be confronted by intelligence officers with fresh evidence he was a Russian spy.
Philby began what was supposed to be a “surprise” encounter by mischievously taunting Nicholas Elliott, the British agent who questioned him in Beirut in 1962, with the words: “I rather thought it would be you.”
In short, as Peter Wright of the sister organisation MI5 wrote: “There was no doubt in anyone’s mind, listening to the tape, that Philby arrived at the safe house well prepared.”
A short while after Philby fled to Russia. Blunt also aided the escape of fellow spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean from Britain to Russia in 1951.
Hanning writes: “The Queen had long known of Blunt’s guilt and gone along with covering up the presence of a ‘Traitor in the Palace’, in order to prevent the Russians knowing he had been rumbled, and the few who needed to know had kept the matter under wraps for fifteen years.
“The Queen Mother, whose own politics in earlier years has been the subject of speculation, had been seen at the opera with him, a Kremlinesque sign for those alive to it that he was still a persona grata.”
Hanning says Prince Charles, who was evidently unaware of Blunt’s treachery, wrote a personal letter to him at the height of the scandal, according to the art critic Brian Sewell, a former student of Blunt who went on to become a close friend and carer to him.
The book says Blunt was heartened to receive a supportive letter from the Prince. “Anthony was on the verge of tears as he read the letter,” remembered Brian Sewell, who said the letter was supportive, sympathetic and regretful. “Anthony had a catch in the voice,” said Sewell.
Revelations of Prince Charles’s support for Blunt will again raise questions about the heir apparent’s judgement. Charles faced criticism for his support of the disgraced paedophile Bishop Peter Ball.
Ball, the former bishop of both Lewes and Gloucester who died in 2019, boasted of his role as “counsellor to royalty” and would use his ‘friendship’ with the Prince to lure his young victims.
The former bishop was investigated by police in the early 1990s, which resulted in a police caution. In 2015, he was convicted of sexual offences against 17 teenagers and young men and jailed for 32 months.
An inquiry later heard that Prince Charles told Ball in a letter in February 1995, two years after the bishop had accepted the police caution: “I wish I could do more. I feel so desperately strongly about the monstrous wrongs that have been done to you and the way you have been treated.”
Charles later arranged for the Duchy of Cornwall to buy a house to be rented by Ball and his identical twin, Michael, also a bishop.
The Prince, in a statement to the inquiry, said he had been deceived over a long period of time “about the true nature” of Ball’s activities, but denied he had sought to influence the outcome of police investigations.
Blunt, who died in 1983, later expressed regret for his spying activities, claiming he had been politically naive and calling it “the biggest mistake of my life.”
His critics dismissed his claims of regret as “shallow.”
Fans of the acclaimed TV series The Crown glimpsed an insight into the complex relationship Blunt enjoyed with the Royal Family.
Blunt, played by Samuel West, was depicted being berated by Prince Philip for betraying his country. Blunt, in turn, threatens to release evidence of the Duke’s connection to the Profumo affair if he crosses him.
The claim that Blunt had a hold over the royals and that knowing their “guilty secret” made him unsackable is a suggestion that makes for a salacious story, but historians have yet to uncover a convincing link between Prince Philip and the Profumo affair.
The scandal triggered the resignation of the former defence secretary John Profumo after his relationship with Christine Keeler, a former model, and the socialite Stephen Ward were publicly revealed.
Ward was friends with a Russian diplomat and it was later claimed that both men used Keeler’s relationship with Profumo to learn military secrets from him.
However, Blunt did carry out at least one sensitive mission in Germany after the war on behalf of the Queen’s father, King George VI.
Blunt, a former intelligence officer who spoke German, worked part-time in the Royal Library. He went to Germany to retrieve nearly 4,000 letters written by Queen Victoria to her daughter, Empress Victoria, the mother of Kaiser Wilhelm.
It has been suggested that some of the letters Blunt retrieved included documents revealing pre-war Nazi sympathies among Britain’s royals.
He is said to have been well liked by the Royal Family for his fine manners and discretion. According to the historian Miranda Carter, a biographer of Blunt, he made other trips to Germany mainly “to recover royal treasures to which the Crown did not have an automatic right”.
They included a 12th-century manuscript and the diamond crown of Queen Charlotte, wife of George III.
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Prince Charles, who was evidently unaware of Blunt’s treachery, wrote a personal letter to him at the height of the scandal, according to the art critic Brian Sewell
Anthony Blunt, British art historian and Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, who was later exposed as a former Soviet spy.
Anthony Blunt, British art historian and Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, who was later exposed as a former Soviet spy. (Photo: Lee/Getty Images)
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October 4, 2021 7:00 am(Updated 9:38 am)
Prince Charles wrote a “sympathetic” letter in support of Anthony Blunt after he had been exposed as a Russian spy, a new book has revealed.
Blunt, a leading art historian and former Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, was publicly derided and dubbed the so-called “Traitor in the Palace” after Mrs Thatcher revealed his treachery in Parliament and stripped him of his knighthood in 1979.
Blunt was a member of the Cambridge Five, a spy ring who worked for the Soviet Union from the 1930s onwards causing extensive harm to British intelligence as well the deaths of many agents spying for Britain throughout eastern Europe.
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After his own recruitment, Blunt is said to have become a “talent spotter” identifying and recruiting other spies for Moscow. He confessed his spying in 1964 after being offered immunity from prosecution.
His exposure led to widespread vilification of him, including being barracked in the street.
Despite this, Prince Charles wrote a “supportive, sympathetic and regretful” letter to Blunt in 1979, according to new book Love & Deception: Philby in Beirut by author James Hanning.
The Prince of Wales, Prince Charles.
The Prince of Wales, Prince Charles. (Photo: Wattie Cheung/PA Wire)
The book, published this week, suggests Blunt forewarned fellow spy Kim Philby while he was in Beirut that he was about to be confronted by intelligence officers with fresh evidence he was a Russian spy.
Philby began what was supposed to be a “surprise” encounter by mischievously taunting Nicholas Elliott, the British agent who questioned him in Beirut in 1962, with the words: “I rather thought it would be you.”
In short, as Peter Wright of the sister organisation MI5 wrote: “There was no doubt in anyone’s mind, listening to the tape, that Philby arrived at the safe house well prepared.”
A short while after Philby fled to Russia. Blunt also aided the escape of fellow spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean from Britain to Russia in 1951.
Hanning writes: “The Queen had long known of Blunt’s guilt and gone along with covering up the presence of a ‘Traitor in the Palace’, in order to prevent the Russians knowing he had been rumbled, and the few who needed to know had kept the matter under wraps for fifteen years.
“The Queen Mother, whose own politics in earlier years has been the subject of speculation, had been seen at the opera with him, a Kremlinesque sign for those alive to it that he was still a persona grata.”
Hanning says Prince Charles, who was evidently unaware of Blunt’s treachery, wrote a personal letter to him at the height of the scandal, according to the art critic Brian Sewell, a former student of Blunt who went on to become a close friend and carer to him.
The book says Blunt was heartened to receive a supportive letter from the Prince. “Anthony was on the verge of tears as he read the letter,” remembered Brian Sewell, who said the letter was supportive, sympathetic and regretful. “Anthony had a catch in the voice,” said Sewell.
Revelations of Prince Charles’s support for Blunt will again raise questions about the heir apparent’s judgement. Charles faced criticism for his support of the disgraced paedophile Bishop Peter Ball.
Ball, the former bishop of both Lewes and Gloucester who died in 2019, boasted of his role as “counsellor to royalty” and would use his ‘friendship’ with the Prince to lure his young victims.
The former bishop was investigated by police in the early 1990s, which resulted in a police caution. In 2015, he was convicted of sexual offences against 17 teenagers and young men and jailed for 32 months.
An inquiry later heard that Prince Charles told Ball in a letter in February 1995, two years after the bishop had accepted the police caution: “I wish I could do more. I feel so desperately strongly about the monstrous wrongs that have been done to you and the way you have been treated.”
Charles later arranged for the Duchy of Cornwall to buy a house to be rented by Ball and his identical twin, Michael, also a bishop.
The Prince, in a statement to the inquiry, said he had been deceived over a long period of time “about the true nature” of Ball’s activities, but denied he had sought to influence the outcome of police investigations.
Blunt, who died in 1983, later expressed regret for his spying activities, claiming he had been politically naive and calling it “the biggest mistake of my life.”
His critics dismissed his claims of regret as “shallow.”
Fans of the acclaimed TV series The Crown glimpsed an insight into the complex relationship Blunt enjoyed with the Royal Family.
Blunt, played by Samuel West, was depicted being berated by Prince Philip for betraying his country. Blunt, in turn, threatens to release evidence of the Duke’s connection to the Profumo affair if he crosses him.
The claim that Blunt had a hold over the royals and that knowing their “guilty secret” made him unsackable is a suggestion that makes for a salacious story, but historians have yet to uncover a convincing link between Prince Philip and the Profumo affair.
The scandal triggered the resignation of the former defence secretary John Profumo after his relationship with Christine Keeler, a former model, and the socialite Stephen Ward were publicly revealed.
Ward was friends with a Russian diplomat and it was later claimed that both men used Keeler’s relationship with Profumo to learn military secrets from him.
However, Blunt did carry out at least one sensitive mission in Germany after the war on behalf of the Queen’s father, King George VI.
Blunt, a former intelligence officer who spoke German, worked part-time in the Royal Library. He went to Germany to retrieve nearly 4,000 letters written by Queen Victoria to her daughter, Empress Victoria, the mother of Kaiser Wilhelm.
It has been suggested that some of the letters Blunt retrieved included documents revealing pre-war Nazi sympathies among Britain’s royals.
He is said to have been well liked by the Royal Family for his fine manners and discretion. According to the historian Miranda Carter, a biographer of Blunt, he made other trips to Germany mainly “to recover royal treasures to which the Crown did not have an automatic right”.
They included a 12th-century manuscript and the diamond crown of Queen Charlotte, wife of George III.
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Retired bishop Peter Ball arrested in child abuse investigation
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By Steve Hayes Nov 13, 2012 in World
Langport - A retired bishop of the Church of England has been arrested by police investigating allegations of child sexual abuse. He was arrested at his home this morning on suspicion of eight separate offences.
As the Guardian points out, the Right Reverend Peter Ball is thought to be the most senior member of the Church of England to have been arrested in connection with a child sexual abuse inquiry. He was arrested on suspicion of offences against eight boys and young men, ranging in age from twelve to their early twenties. The offences are alleged to have been committed during the 1980s and 1990s.
Bishop Ball was the former bishop of Gloucester. He resigned in 1993, as This Is The West Country notes, after receiving a police caution for committing an act of gross indecency against a teenager.
As the Guardian notes, on his resignation, the former bishop moved to Manor Lodge, a wisteria-clad property owned by the Duchy of Cornwall, the private estate of Prince Charles.
At the time, Ball said:
"He (Prince Charles) has been wonderfully kind and allowed me to have a duchy house. The prince is a loyal friend. I have immense admiration for him, he has been through horrific times and is a great person."
Sussex Police press release states: Detective Chief Inspector Carwyn Hughes of Sussex Police, who is in charge of the investigation, said:
"We make it clear that the force will always take seriously any allegations of historic sexual offending, and every possible step will be taken to investigate whenever appropriate.
Allegations of historic offences are treated just as seriously as any more recent offences."
The Independent points out that the arrest follows a six month investigation by Sussex Police. The investigation arose from two reports from a Church of England safeguarding children consultant. The handling of sexual abuse allegations in the diocese was subject to an inquiry commissioned by Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
BBC News conducted an interview with Neil Todd, a victim of the bishop who waived his right to anonymity, said:
"It is an investigation which to be honest is well overdue.
It stayed with me throughout my life's journey and even this far down the track it doesn't feel like there's any real closure.
The abuse was varied. The worst of it was mental abuse.
When it came to the abuse, the abuse was sexual, mental and physical. He was just not a very nice human being"
The Rt Rev Paul Butler, Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham and chair of the Churches National Safeguarding Committee, said:
"The Church of England takes any allegations of abuse very seriously and is committed to being a safe place for all. To this end we have robust procedures and policies in place. But we can never be complacent.
We would like to urge any victims or those with information to feel free to come forward knowing that they will be listened to in confidence.
We have also put support systems in place for all those involved with today's arrests."
Ann Lawrence, from the sexual abuse survivors' group Minister and Clergy Sexual Abuse Survivors, said it was "a major first step" for the Church of England.
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By Steve Hayes Nov 13, 2012 in World
Langport - A retired bishop of the Church of England has been arrested by police investigating allegations of child sexual abuse. He was arrested at his home this morning on suspicion of eight separate offences.
As the Guardian points out, the Right Reverend Peter Ball is thought to be the most senior member of the Church of England to have been arrested in connection with a child sexual abuse inquiry. He was arrested on suspicion of offences against eight boys and young men, ranging in age from twelve to their early twenties. The offences are alleged to have been committed during the 1980s and 1990s.
Bishop Ball was the former bishop of Gloucester. He resigned in 1993, as This Is The West Country notes, after receiving a police caution for committing an act of gross indecency against a teenager.
As the Guardian notes, on his resignation, the former bishop moved to Manor Lodge, a wisteria-clad property owned by the Duchy of Cornwall, the private estate of Prince Charles.
At the time, Ball said:
"He (Prince Charles) has been wonderfully kind and allowed me to have a duchy house. The prince is a loyal friend. I have immense admiration for him, he has been through horrific times and is a great person."
Sussex Police press release states: Detective Chief Inspector Carwyn Hughes of Sussex Police, who is in charge of the investigation, said:
"We make it clear that the force will always take seriously any allegations of historic sexual offending, and every possible step will be taken to investigate whenever appropriate.
Allegations of historic offences are treated just as seriously as any more recent offences."
The Independent points out that the arrest follows a six month investigation by Sussex Police. The investigation arose from two reports from a Church of England safeguarding children consultant. The handling of sexual abuse allegations in the diocese was subject to an inquiry commissioned by Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
BBC News conducted an interview with Neil Todd, a victim of the bishop who waived his right to anonymity, said:
"It is an investigation which to be honest is well overdue.
It stayed with me throughout my life's journey and even this far down the track it doesn't feel like there's any real closure.
The abuse was varied. The worst of it was mental abuse.
When it came to the abuse, the abuse was sexual, mental and physical. He was just not a very nice human being"
The Rt Rev Paul Butler, Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham and chair of the Churches National Safeguarding Committee, said:
"The Church of England takes any allegations of abuse very seriously and is committed to being a safe place for all. To this end we have robust procedures and policies in place. But we can never be complacent.
We would like to urge any victims or those with information to feel free to come forward knowing that they will be listened to in confidence.
We have also put support systems in place for all those involved with today's arrests."
Ann Lawrence, from the sexual abuse survivors' group Minister and Clergy Sexual Abuse Survivors, said it was "a major first step" for the Church of England.
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Jimmy Savile and Prince Charles' very close friendship with sex abuse bishop Peter Ball
By Richard Kay for the Daily Mail
Published: 00:13, 9 October 2015 | Updated: 06:41, 9 October 2015
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Lit by the flickering light of a log fire, their faces glowed with sober mutual interest. The prince with the troubled soul and the priest with all the answers.
Staff at Highgrove, the Prince of Wales’s country home, had grown accustomed to these intimate exchanges when the Rt Rev Peter Ball, the now disgraced Bishop of Gloucester, came to offer solace and enlightenment to their boss.
Charles had long been an admirer of the charismatic and dedicated Anglican churchman, who slept on an old horsehair mattress on the floor of his own Gloucester residence and rose for prayer at 4.30am.
Friends: Prince Charles is pictured here with the former Bishop of Lewes and Gloucester Peter Ball in 1992
Friends: Prince Charles is pictured here with the former Bishop of Lewes and Gloucester Peter Ball in 1992
When the Prince’s marriage to Diana was unravelling, Ball’s advice was sought and the prince had written ‘personal letters’ to him. Later, the bishop encouraged him over his relationship with the former Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles.
Indeed, so grateful were both Charles and Camilla for his guidance and his kindness that Ball was invited to their wedding at Windsor Castle in 2005.
Throughout these years, Charles’s support for the bishop was unwavering. ‘They would pray together in the Sanctuary,’ recalls one former aide.
The Sanctuary is a Harry Potter-esque temple built by Charles deep in a glade in Highgrove’s grounds to mark the Millennium, and where he retreats for quiet contemplation.
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Constructed to a ‘sacred geometry’ design — the mathematical proportions of the building are said to have religious significance — its decorations are minimal.
Inside, there is an oak table with a rush cross hanging above it, as well as the wood-burning stove in front of which Charles and the bishop would sit.
Two stained glass windows are dedicated to the memory of Ted Hughes, the late Poet Laureate, and the writer Sir Laurens van der Post, Charles’s philosopher guru.
One former member of the Highgrove staff told me that Ball himself had consecrated the building, although it was later reported that the Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, had been invited to perform a blessing.
Whatever the case, it was Ball who delivered the address at the funeral of the Duchess of Cornwall’s father, Major Bruce Shand, in 2006, where mourners included Charles, William and Harry.
Prince Charles is pictured meeting Jimmy Savile at a dinner event at the Club Double Diamond in Caerphilly in 1978
Prince Charles is pictured meeting Jimmy Savile at a dinner event at the Club Double Diamond in Caerphilly in 1978
Against such a background, it is easier to understand why Charles had offered Ball sanctuary in a Duchy of Cornwall property when, in 1993, the bishop was forced to resign after being let off with a caution by police over allegations that he indecently assaulted a 17-year-old novice monk.
Yesterday, after Ball, 83, was finally jailed for this crime — along with other sexual abuse offences dating back 40 years — the Prince issued a statement denying that he interfered in the 1993 legal process which resulted in the then bishop escaping sex abuse charges.
So what is the truth of Charles’s friendship with the prelate who preferred to dress in the robes of a monk rather than the ceremonial purple of a bishop. And how did it flourish despite the unsavoury allegations swirling about him?
As we shall see, the Prince of Wales was not the only senior royal figure who knew and liked Ball. But first it is important to set Peter Ball in context.
The shuffling old man we saw arriving at the Old Bailey this week, where he was jailed for 32 months, was something of a celebrity figure in the early 1980s, when respect for the Church was higher than it is now.
And he was part of a double act with his twin brother, Michael. They founded their own monastic community, both became bishops (Peter at Lewes then Gloucester, Michael at Jarrow then Truro).
Educated at Lancing College and Cambridge, where he collected a Blue for squash, Peter was always the more affable and outgoing of the twins, enjoying the good life, especially fine wines and good food. He once dined in his monk’s habit at the Savoy with Mrs Thatcher. He even appeared in the gossip columns when he announced he was taking up stock car racing.
Peter Ball (pictured), 83, has finally been jailed
Peter Ball (pictured), 83, has finally been jailed
While his charisma and powerful personality attracted a wide circle of friends, he was also part of a High Church scene in the diocese of Chichester when Eric Kemp, a formidable figure of the old school, was bishop. Chichester under Kemp was one of the last bastions for clergy opposed to female ordinations, and it attracted a lot of openly gay clergy.
When Kemp appointed the flamboyant Ball as his assistant in the post of bishop of Lewes, he fitted in immediately. Kemp moved in elevated London circles and was a good friend of Canon Anthony Caesar, sub dean of the Chapel Royal and the Queen’s domestic chaplain. And Ball often accompanied Kemp on his London trips.
When he moved to Gloucester to become bishop in 1992, Ball found himself catapulted into the storm over the collapse of the Waleses’ marriage.
Friends had been trying to shore up the royal marriage, among them a number of clergy. With Highgrove within his new jurisdiction, it was thought the highly personable monk might be a figure to help the couple.
He was propelled into the royal circle by two people, I understand. One was prebendary Willie Booth, a former chaplain at Westminster School, who’d taken over from Caesar. The other was Jimmy Savile.
That Savile committed a number of sex offences in Sussex at the time when Ball was bishop there is not disputed, although there is no suggestion that Ball knew about Savile’s crimes.
But during his time in Lewes, Ball got to know Savile well and he was the bishop’s principal entree into the Waleses’ household. After his appointment to Gloucester was announced, Ball became a regular visitor to Highgrove and was held in such high regard that Charles attended his enthronement.
While his magic failed to work as far as the royal marriage was concerned, both Charles and Diana were fascinated by the monk-bishop as he gradually gained their confidence.
But Ball was said to have been shattered when John Major announced their separation shortly before Christmas 1992 and for a while he remained on good terms with them both, even after being forced to resign the following year.
Neil Todd, the teenage aspirant monk who was sexually abused by Ball, said the bishop told him that ‘the Prince had written him personal letters. He didn’t say what was in them …Then he told me they were in his safe and added: “One day they will be very valuable.”’
Todd also said: ‘We knew that Bishop Peter and the Prince were good friends. He didn’t refer to him as Prince Charles. He would always say just Charles.’
According to Todd, who twice tried to take his own life before finally committing suicide in 2012, the bishop kept framed photographs of members of the royal family on his desk at his home in Gloucester and displayed an invitation from the Queen for dinner at Buckingham Palace.
According to Ball, Charles let him rent a Duchy property — Manor Lodge in the Somerset village of Aller — after he had to resign. ‘The Prince of Wales has been wonderfully kind,’ the cleric said some years later. ‘He very kindly allowed me to have a Duchy house.’
The bishop encouraged Prince Charles over his relationship with the former Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles
The bishop encouraged Prince Charles over his relationship with the former Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles
Charles, he added, ‘was a loyal friend and I have immense admiration for him. He has been through horrific times and is a great person’.
But Ball’s royal friendships were not confined to the Prince of Wales. He was on close terms with the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret, and was invited to preach at Sandringham.
Even the Queen supported him after his police caution. In 1994, when she was distributing Royal Maundy money in Truro, Ball was there with his brother, who was Truro’s bishop.
After lunch in the Chapter House, the Queen, who had been on the high table with local dignitaries, went across to Ball, held out her hand and said in the clearest of voices: ‘My love and encouragement, Bishop.’
According to former courtiers, Charles’s continuing relationship with Ball was typical of his stubbornness and naivety when it comes to friends.
‘I have to say neither the Prince nor indeed the Princess can have known the full extent of the allegations against him, merely that he had been cautioned for a single misdemeanour some years earlier,’ says one former Palace figure.
Another insider says that while Charles was prepared to offer practical help in the form of the Duchy house, he would have been reluctant to interfere further. ‘It’s one thing badgering ministers with memos etc, but another involving himself in a judicial matter.’
So, who then may have been the royal referred to but not named at the Old Bailey this week?
One senior source has suggested to me that it may have been Diana. ‘Unlike Charles, she had no constitutional restriction to prevent her from interfering, plus she was formally separated from the Prince.’
If it was Diana who had intervened, this might explain the terse statement from Clarence House denying that Prince Charles had interfered.
Both Charles and Diana (pictured in 1989) were fascinated by the monk-bishop as he gradually gained their confidence
Both Charles and Diana (pictured in 1989) were fascinated by the monk-bishop as he gradually gained their confidence
Friends of the late Princess say that putting her name in the frame is ‘just too convenient’. And a former aide who handled her correspondence recalls no such letter, ‘supportive or otherwise’.
Charles, meanwhile, must surely have been advised to keep Ball at arm’s length — just as he had been advised to distance himself from Jimmy Savile.
‘The Prince did receive letters from the public complaining about Savile,’ says a senior aide. ‘But the writers were dismissed [by him] as jealous or mad.’
One reason why Ball stayed on the princely radar was that George Carey, former Archbishop of Canterbury, allowed him to continue his ministry after 1993 by arranging for him to become assistant bishop in Bath and Wells, where Carey himself was bishop before he went to Lambeth Palace.
He remained a confidant of the prince right up until 2012, when allegations about his sexual abuse of boys and young men surfaced again.
Although it took him time to accept the facts, the Prince has now cut the cleric out of his life. It was a difficult decision because Ball had become a spiritual advisor to the Prince, particularly in the period between Diana’s death in 1997 and his marriage to Camilla in 2005.
Ball had also become close to the Duchess.
‘She liked him and he was kind to them both,’ says an aide. ‘And he preached at her father’s funeral, which indicates his standing in their household.’
Charles’s support for Ball did falter on occasion. When the bishop gave an interview confirming his friendship with the Prince, he rounded angrily on staff, saying: ‘Tell Peter that he must never talk about me again.’
By Richard Kay for the Daily Mail
Published: 00:13, 9 October 2015 | Updated: 06:41, 9 October 2015
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -Ball.html
Lit by the flickering light of a log fire, their faces glowed with sober mutual interest. The prince with the troubled soul and the priest with all the answers.
Staff at Highgrove, the Prince of Wales’s country home, had grown accustomed to these intimate exchanges when the Rt Rev Peter Ball, the now disgraced Bishop of Gloucester, came to offer solace and enlightenment to their boss.
Charles had long been an admirer of the charismatic and dedicated Anglican churchman, who slept on an old horsehair mattress on the floor of his own Gloucester residence and rose for prayer at 4.30am.
Friends: Prince Charles is pictured here with the former Bishop of Lewes and Gloucester Peter Ball in 1992
Friends: Prince Charles is pictured here with the former Bishop of Lewes and Gloucester Peter Ball in 1992
When the Prince’s marriage to Diana was unravelling, Ball’s advice was sought and the prince had written ‘personal letters’ to him. Later, the bishop encouraged him over his relationship with the former Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles.
Indeed, so grateful were both Charles and Camilla for his guidance and his kindness that Ball was invited to their wedding at Windsor Castle in 2005.
Throughout these years, Charles’s support for the bishop was unwavering. ‘They would pray together in the Sanctuary,’ recalls one former aide.
The Sanctuary is a Harry Potter-esque temple built by Charles deep in a glade in Highgrove’s grounds to mark the Millennium, and where he retreats for quiet contemplation.
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Constructed to a ‘sacred geometry’ design — the mathematical proportions of the building are said to have religious significance — its decorations are minimal.
Inside, there is an oak table with a rush cross hanging above it, as well as the wood-burning stove in front of which Charles and the bishop would sit.
Two stained glass windows are dedicated to the memory of Ted Hughes, the late Poet Laureate, and the writer Sir Laurens van der Post, Charles’s philosopher guru.
One former member of the Highgrove staff told me that Ball himself had consecrated the building, although it was later reported that the Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, had been invited to perform a blessing.
Whatever the case, it was Ball who delivered the address at the funeral of the Duchess of Cornwall’s father, Major Bruce Shand, in 2006, where mourners included Charles, William and Harry.
Prince Charles is pictured meeting Jimmy Savile at a dinner event at the Club Double Diamond in Caerphilly in 1978
Prince Charles is pictured meeting Jimmy Savile at a dinner event at the Club Double Diamond in Caerphilly in 1978
Against such a background, it is easier to understand why Charles had offered Ball sanctuary in a Duchy of Cornwall property when, in 1993, the bishop was forced to resign after being let off with a caution by police over allegations that he indecently assaulted a 17-year-old novice monk.
Yesterday, after Ball, 83, was finally jailed for this crime — along with other sexual abuse offences dating back 40 years — the Prince issued a statement denying that he interfered in the 1993 legal process which resulted in the then bishop escaping sex abuse charges.
So what is the truth of Charles’s friendship with the prelate who preferred to dress in the robes of a monk rather than the ceremonial purple of a bishop. And how did it flourish despite the unsavoury allegations swirling about him?
As we shall see, the Prince of Wales was not the only senior royal figure who knew and liked Ball. But first it is important to set Peter Ball in context.
The shuffling old man we saw arriving at the Old Bailey this week, where he was jailed for 32 months, was something of a celebrity figure in the early 1980s, when respect for the Church was higher than it is now.
And he was part of a double act with his twin brother, Michael. They founded their own monastic community, both became bishops (Peter at Lewes then Gloucester, Michael at Jarrow then Truro).
Educated at Lancing College and Cambridge, where he collected a Blue for squash, Peter was always the more affable and outgoing of the twins, enjoying the good life, especially fine wines and good food. He once dined in his monk’s habit at the Savoy with Mrs Thatcher. He even appeared in the gossip columns when he announced he was taking up stock car racing.
Peter Ball (pictured), 83, has finally been jailed
Peter Ball (pictured), 83, has finally been jailed
While his charisma and powerful personality attracted a wide circle of friends, he was also part of a High Church scene in the diocese of Chichester when Eric Kemp, a formidable figure of the old school, was bishop. Chichester under Kemp was one of the last bastions for clergy opposed to female ordinations, and it attracted a lot of openly gay clergy.
When Kemp appointed the flamboyant Ball as his assistant in the post of bishop of Lewes, he fitted in immediately. Kemp moved in elevated London circles and was a good friend of Canon Anthony Caesar, sub dean of the Chapel Royal and the Queen’s domestic chaplain. And Ball often accompanied Kemp on his London trips.
When he moved to Gloucester to become bishop in 1992, Ball found himself catapulted into the storm over the collapse of the Waleses’ marriage.
Friends had been trying to shore up the royal marriage, among them a number of clergy. With Highgrove within his new jurisdiction, it was thought the highly personable monk might be a figure to help the couple.
He was propelled into the royal circle by two people, I understand. One was prebendary Willie Booth, a former chaplain at Westminster School, who’d taken over from Caesar. The other was Jimmy Savile.
That Savile committed a number of sex offences in Sussex at the time when Ball was bishop there is not disputed, although there is no suggestion that Ball knew about Savile’s crimes.
But during his time in Lewes, Ball got to know Savile well and he was the bishop’s principal entree into the Waleses’ household. After his appointment to Gloucester was announced, Ball became a regular visitor to Highgrove and was held in such high regard that Charles attended his enthronement.
While his magic failed to work as far as the royal marriage was concerned, both Charles and Diana were fascinated by the monk-bishop as he gradually gained their confidence.
But Ball was said to have been shattered when John Major announced their separation shortly before Christmas 1992 and for a while he remained on good terms with them both, even after being forced to resign the following year.
Neil Todd, the teenage aspirant monk who was sexually abused by Ball, said the bishop told him that ‘the Prince had written him personal letters. He didn’t say what was in them …Then he told me they were in his safe and added: “One day they will be very valuable.”’
Todd also said: ‘We knew that Bishop Peter and the Prince were good friends. He didn’t refer to him as Prince Charles. He would always say just Charles.’
According to Todd, who twice tried to take his own life before finally committing suicide in 2012, the bishop kept framed photographs of members of the royal family on his desk at his home in Gloucester and displayed an invitation from the Queen for dinner at Buckingham Palace.
According to Ball, Charles let him rent a Duchy property — Manor Lodge in the Somerset village of Aller — after he had to resign. ‘The Prince of Wales has been wonderfully kind,’ the cleric said some years later. ‘He very kindly allowed me to have a Duchy house.’
The bishop encouraged Prince Charles over his relationship with the former Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles
The bishop encouraged Prince Charles over his relationship with the former Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles
Charles, he added, ‘was a loyal friend and I have immense admiration for him. He has been through horrific times and is a great person’.
But Ball’s royal friendships were not confined to the Prince of Wales. He was on close terms with the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret, and was invited to preach at Sandringham.
Even the Queen supported him after his police caution. In 1994, when she was distributing Royal Maundy money in Truro, Ball was there with his brother, who was Truro’s bishop.
After lunch in the Chapter House, the Queen, who had been on the high table with local dignitaries, went across to Ball, held out her hand and said in the clearest of voices: ‘My love and encouragement, Bishop.’
According to former courtiers, Charles’s continuing relationship with Ball was typical of his stubbornness and naivety when it comes to friends.
‘I have to say neither the Prince nor indeed the Princess can have known the full extent of the allegations against him, merely that he had been cautioned for a single misdemeanour some years earlier,’ says one former Palace figure.
Another insider says that while Charles was prepared to offer practical help in the form of the Duchy house, he would have been reluctant to interfere further. ‘It’s one thing badgering ministers with memos etc, but another involving himself in a judicial matter.’
So, who then may have been the royal referred to but not named at the Old Bailey this week?
One senior source has suggested to me that it may have been Diana. ‘Unlike Charles, she had no constitutional restriction to prevent her from interfering, plus she was formally separated from the Prince.’
If it was Diana who had intervened, this might explain the terse statement from Clarence House denying that Prince Charles had interfered.
Both Charles and Diana (pictured in 1989) were fascinated by the monk-bishop as he gradually gained their confidence
Both Charles and Diana (pictured in 1989) were fascinated by the monk-bishop as he gradually gained their confidence
Friends of the late Princess say that putting her name in the frame is ‘just too convenient’. And a former aide who handled her correspondence recalls no such letter, ‘supportive or otherwise’.
Charles, meanwhile, must surely have been advised to keep Ball at arm’s length — just as he had been advised to distance himself from Jimmy Savile.
‘The Prince did receive letters from the public complaining about Savile,’ says a senior aide. ‘But the writers were dismissed [by him] as jealous or mad.’
One reason why Ball stayed on the princely radar was that George Carey, former Archbishop of Canterbury, allowed him to continue his ministry after 1993 by arranging for him to become assistant bishop in Bath and Wells, where Carey himself was bishop before he went to Lambeth Palace.
He remained a confidant of the prince right up until 2012, when allegations about his sexual abuse of boys and young men surfaced again.
Although it took him time to accept the facts, the Prince has now cut the cleric out of his life. It was a difficult decision because Ball had become a spiritual advisor to the Prince, particularly in the period between Diana’s death in 1997 and his marriage to Camilla in 2005.
Ball had also become close to the Duchess.
‘She liked him and he was kind to them both,’ says an aide. ‘And he preached at her father’s funeral, which indicates his standing in their household.’
Charles’s support for Ball did falter on occasion. When the bishop gave an interview confirming his friendship with the Prince, he rounded angrily on staff, saying: ‘Tell Peter that he must never talk about me again.’
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BBC covered up Jimmy Savile’s child abuse because he was friends with Prince Charles, claims veteran broadcaster Bill Oddie
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Veteran BBC presenter Bill Oddie has backed claims disgraced Jimmy Savile’s abuse was covered up – because he was friends with Prince Charles.
The Springwatch star, who appeared on TOTP with the Goodies when Savile presented it during the 1970s, said there was a “running sick joke” at the BBC about Savile being a paedophile.
He suggested there might have been some sort of “censorship committee” preventing the truth being released because of Savile’s royal connections.
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The Prince of Wales and Sir Jimmy Savile in Glencoe in July 1999
The Prince of Wales and Sir Jimmy Savile in Glencoe in July 1999
The presenter also backed claims made by other former BBC presenters that Savile’s antics were well known at the time.
He said: “The idea that youngsters were prey – everybody knew that.
“I was not surprised at all. And the surprise is in a sense that that didn’t happen years ago.
“The establishment or who ever it is decided to keep it all quiet and decided to give him a knighthood. He was, to a certain amount, a friend of royalty.”
The pair of friends chat happily during the charity trip, where Savile kept a holiday cottage
The pair of friends chat happily during the charity trip, where Savile kept a holiday cottage
He added: “I do not know why it took so long to come to light. That is what I am curious about.
“Whether there is somewhere in Britain, some sort of censorship committee that we don’t know about that suppresses these thing and somebody gets together in a room and says ‘come on he was a friend of Prince Charles, it would look awfully bad on Prince Charles if we said he was a bit of a perv’.
“And someone decides ‘yes you are right, we will keep it quiet, nobody will ever find out.’
“I don’t know who that would be.”
Speaking after a question and answer session with students of Cambridge University’s historic debating society – The Union Society – on Tuesday, Oddie said Savile’s reputation was “just taken for granted.”
The Prince of Wales is shown round the holiday cottage, which Savile had hoped would be turned into a retreat for disabled children
The Prince of Wales is shown round the holiday cottage, which Savile had hoped would be turned into a retreat for disabled children
He said: “There was just this running sick joke that Jimmy Savile pestered the young youths of both sexes.
“It was just taken for granted. It doesn’t mean anyone thought they must do something about it – and it probably wasn’t realised how serious it was – it certainly wasn’t realised to the extent of the hospital – which is horrendous.
“When this came out it was not a surprise at all. The surprise is that it did not come out a lot earlier and the puzzlement is or the question is was it covered up or did people just chose to ignore it or was there an order and if so from whom, by whom and with whom saying we are not going to allow this to get published.
“It does make you think who would you look at. Would you look at the BBC, the police, would you look at the NHS hospital people? Did they all know and didn’t say?”
Bill Oddie claims the BBC covered up Savile's sex abuse
Bill Oddie claims the BBC covered up Savile’s sex abuse
Oddie revealed there was a “naive groupies scene” at the time.
He said: “This is not a mitigating circumstance obviously, but the only thing I will say is that that was a time in history in television and radio and live shows where there was a sort of naive groupies scene.
“I do not think the girls were incredibly promiscuous, certainly not the younger ones.
“There were people who hung around after gigs and tried to get to the stars – or the disk jockeys.
“You haven’t half got a booby prize if you went for Cliff Richard and ended up with Jimmy Savile.”
He added: “The thing that you could not ignore was that it was the era of the sort of groupies.
“Not the heavy groupy, but it was an extension of those shots of the Beatles in the 60s where there is hundreds of girls crying and screaming and god knows what – well that was pretty rife.
“My wife was saying the other day about a friend of hers from way back when they went to see the Monkeys and the girl said ‘I am going to try and get in the dressing room’ and my wife said ‘he will only want one thing you know’ and she said ‘yes, I know. that is what I am going for’.
“But that is not quite the same thing as a paedophile – that was just rock bands and includes other people I am sure and is due to availability and other things. The 70s was like that.”
Oddie, who started on BBC radio with his show I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again, reiterated claims that former director general of the BBC Mark Thompson must have known what was going on with Savile.
He said: “It is so extraordinary that there is any sort of mystery – when the ex head of the BBC Mark Thompson the other day said ‘I don’t know anything about it’.
“You worked at the BBC and you don’t know anything about it – don’t be ridiculous.
“That is absolute nonsense.”
Oddie claimed Savile “bribed his way out” of getting found out for molesting children in hospital because he was a large donor.
He said: “Anyone of that era knew something – he had a reputation for being a groper.
“The most awful aspect is the idea of molesting kids in hospital – that is just unbelievable. He was sort of bribing his way out of it by giving millions of pounds to the hospital – that is staggering.”
As well as Savile’s contact with children at the BBC, his interaction with sick youngsters at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, in Sussex, and Leeds General Infirmary, is also being investigated.
BBC covered up Jimmy Savile’s child abuse because he was friends with Prince Charles, claims veteran broadcaster Bill Oddie
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Veteran BBC presenter Bill Oddie has backed claims disgraced Jimmy Savile’s abuse was covered up – because he was friends with Prince Charles.
The Springwatch star, who appeared on TOTP with the Goodies when Savile presented it during the 1970s, said there was a “running sick joke” at the BBC about Savile being a paedophile.
He suggested there might have been some sort of “censorship committee” preventing the truth being released because of Savile’s royal connections.
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The Prince of Wales and Sir Jimmy Savile in Glencoe in July 1999
The Prince of Wales and Sir Jimmy Savile in Glencoe in July 1999
The presenter also backed claims made by other former BBC presenters that Savile’s antics were well known at the time.
He said: “The idea that youngsters were prey – everybody knew that.
“I was not surprised at all. And the surprise is in a sense that that didn’t happen years ago.
“The establishment or who ever it is decided to keep it all quiet and decided to give him a knighthood. He was, to a certain amount, a friend of royalty.”
The pair of friends chat happily during the charity trip, where Savile kept a holiday cottage
The pair of friends chat happily during the charity trip, where Savile kept a holiday cottage
He added: “I do not know why it took so long to come to light. That is what I am curious about.
“Whether there is somewhere in Britain, some sort of censorship committee that we don’t know about that suppresses these thing and somebody gets together in a room and says ‘come on he was a friend of Prince Charles, it would look awfully bad on Prince Charles if we said he was a bit of a perv’.
“And someone decides ‘yes you are right, we will keep it quiet, nobody will ever find out.’
“I don’t know who that would be.”
Speaking after a question and answer session with students of Cambridge University’s historic debating society – The Union Society – on Tuesday, Oddie said Savile’s reputation was “just taken for granted.”
The Prince of Wales is shown round the holiday cottage, which Savile had hoped would be turned into a retreat for disabled children
The Prince of Wales is shown round the holiday cottage, which Savile had hoped would be turned into a retreat for disabled children
He said: “There was just this running sick joke that Jimmy Savile pestered the young youths of both sexes.
“It was just taken for granted. It doesn’t mean anyone thought they must do something about it – and it probably wasn’t realised how serious it was – it certainly wasn’t realised to the extent of the hospital – which is horrendous.
“When this came out it was not a surprise at all. The surprise is that it did not come out a lot earlier and the puzzlement is or the question is was it covered up or did people just chose to ignore it or was there an order and if so from whom, by whom and with whom saying we are not going to allow this to get published.
“It does make you think who would you look at. Would you look at the BBC, the police, would you look at the NHS hospital people? Did they all know and didn’t say?”
Bill Oddie claims the BBC covered up Savile's sex abuse
Bill Oddie claims the BBC covered up Savile’s sex abuse
Oddie revealed there was a “naive groupies scene” at the time.
He said: “This is not a mitigating circumstance obviously, but the only thing I will say is that that was a time in history in television and radio and live shows where there was a sort of naive groupies scene.
“I do not think the girls were incredibly promiscuous, certainly not the younger ones.
“There were people who hung around after gigs and tried to get to the stars – or the disk jockeys.
“You haven’t half got a booby prize if you went for Cliff Richard and ended up with Jimmy Savile.”
He added: “The thing that you could not ignore was that it was the era of the sort of groupies.
“Not the heavy groupy, but it was an extension of those shots of the Beatles in the 60s where there is hundreds of girls crying and screaming and god knows what – well that was pretty rife.
“My wife was saying the other day about a friend of hers from way back when they went to see the Monkeys and the girl said ‘I am going to try and get in the dressing room’ and my wife said ‘he will only want one thing you know’ and she said ‘yes, I know. that is what I am going for’.
“But that is not quite the same thing as a paedophile – that was just rock bands and includes other people I am sure and is due to availability and other things. The 70s was like that.”
Oddie, who started on BBC radio with his show I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again, reiterated claims that former director general of the BBC Mark Thompson must have known what was going on with Savile.
He said: “It is so extraordinary that there is any sort of mystery – when the ex head of the BBC Mark Thompson the other day said ‘I don’t know anything about it’.
“You worked at the BBC and you don’t know anything about it – don’t be ridiculous.
“That is absolute nonsense.”
Oddie claimed Savile “bribed his way out” of getting found out for molesting children in hospital because he was a large donor.
He said: “Anyone of that era knew something – he had a reputation for being a groper.
“The most awful aspect is the idea of molesting kids in hospital – that is just unbelievable. He was sort of bribing his way out of it by giving millions of pounds to the hospital – that is staggering.”
As well as Savile’s contact with children at the BBC, his interaction with sick youngsters at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, in Sussex, and Leeds General Infirmary, is also being investigated.
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King Charles’s Staff Reveal His List of Lavish Demands, From Heated Biscuits To Traveling With His Own Toilet Seat
SEP 26, 2022 by apost team
https://www.apost.com/en/blog/king-char ... eat/41548/
The last few years have been momentous for the British monarchy, culminating in the tragic passing of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch Queen Elizabeth II on Sept. 8, 2022, at Balmoral. It was a devastating day for the royal family as many members gathered to be by her side in her final moments.
That same day, Elizabeth’s eldest son, King Charles III, ascended the throne. And just one day later, he addressed the UK as its new monarch. Since then, and particularly since a video of the new king ordering an aide to remove items from his desk emerged, reports of his lavish demands and eccentric habits – from peculiar food preparation to one specific brand of toilet paper – have surfaced.
It comes as no surprise that the boy born to be king would reportedly garner the nickname the “pampered prince” in his early years. Almost a year to the day after the late Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip’s wedding on Nov. 20, 1947, the future queen gave birth to her eldest son King Charles III on Nov. 14, 1948. Charles was born in the Buhl Room of Buckingham Palace via cesarean section when Elizabeth was still a princess.
King Charles broke with tradition several times in his youth, attending school instead of being privately tutored, as was the norm for the royal family at the time. He also became the first royal to earn a university degree at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read archaeology and anthropology. He later joined the Royal Air Force before becoming the Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester in July 1958. His investiture took place on July 1, 1969, when he was crowned by his mother in Caernarvon, Wales.
Let’s take a look at some of King Charles’s more unconventional demands and daily routines.
Even before his ascension to the throne, King Charles III was known by his staff to have very particular requests and habits. In the 2015 Amazon Prime documentary “Serving the Royals: Inside the Firm,” Paul Burrell, a former butler to the late queen and Princess Diana, revealed that the then prince had “everything done for him.”
“His pajamas are pressed every morning, his shoelaces are pressed flat with an iron, the bath plug has to be in a certain position, and the water temperature has to be just tepid,” in a bathtub filled “only half full,” Burrell disclosed.
He added the new king even “has his valets squeeze one inch of toothpaste onto his toothbrush every morning.”
As for food, Charles has stuck to a primarily healthy diet with some unusual quirks. In the same documentary, a former member of the royal staff, chef Graham Newbould said: “Prince Charles has a healthier option. He’d have homemade bread, a bowl of fresh fruit, fresh fruit juices.”
“Wherever the Prince goes in the world, the breakfast box goes with him. He has six different types of honey, some special mueslis, his dried fruit and anything that’s a bit special that he is a bit fussy about.”
Meanwhile, the king’s former press secretary Julian Payne told The Mirror the monarch habitually skipped lunch, preferring a walk instead.
“The king doesn’t eat lunch; so, an early lesson I learnt when out on the road with him was to have a big breakfast or bring a few snack bars with you to keep you going.
“The working day is pretty relentless. Beginning with the radio news headlines and a breakfast of seasonal fruit salad and seeds with tea.”
Even more surprising is the extremely precise and uncommon way his biscuits are prepared.
Like so many of us, King Charles is fond of biscuits but, unlike so many of us, prefers his sweet treats warm, a royal household insider revealed to MyLondon (keep in mind that British biscuits can be a tad different from what somebody in the US would expect!).
“Prince Charles enjoys cheese and biscuits at the end of many of his meals. Since he’s particular about everything, he insists that they be a certain temperature. The staff keeps a warming pan just to make sure they are hot enough for his liking,” the source revealed.
Meanwhile, Charles also has a penchant for traveling heavy, making sure to have certain furniture and other items sent before him, according to the royal family tell-all “The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor – the Truth and the Turmoil” written by Tina Brown, who was good friends with Princess Diana. Brown revealed the king takes many personal items along with him on his travels, including his “bed, furniture and even pictures.”
Brown’s book disclosed that former senior valet Michael Fawcett oversaw the litany of items brought along during the then prince’s travels, which included an “orthopedic bed, lavatory seat, and Kleenex Velvet lavatory paper, plus two landscapes of the Scottish Highlands.” Again breaking with tradition, King Charles reportedly eschews the royal household’s official supplier of toilet paper, Andrex, and prefers Kleenex Velvet.
Having lived his entire life being waited on hand and foot, it’s no surprise the king is a stickler for perfection. This was highlighted in another viral video in which an uncooperative pen rubbed the royal the wrong way. After asking his aides for the date and discovering he had written it wrongly while signing a book, he then got upset after the pen he was using began to leak, saying “I can’t bear this bloody thing! What they do every stinking time.”
SEP 26, 2022 by apost team
https://www.apost.com/en/blog/king-char ... eat/41548/
The last few years have been momentous for the British monarchy, culminating in the tragic passing of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch Queen Elizabeth II on Sept. 8, 2022, at Balmoral. It was a devastating day for the royal family as many members gathered to be by her side in her final moments.
That same day, Elizabeth’s eldest son, King Charles III, ascended the throne. And just one day later, he addressed the UK as its new monarch. Since then, and particularly since a video of the new king ordering an aide to remove items from his desk emerged, reports of his lavish demands and eccentric habits – from peculiar food preparation to one specific brand of toilet paper – have surfaced.
It comes as no surprise that the boy born to be king would reportedly garner the nickname the “pampered prince” in his early years. Almost a year to the day after the late Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip’s wedding on Nov. 20, 1947, the future queen gave birth to her eldest son King Charles III on Nov. 14, 1948. Charles was born in the Buhl Room of Buckingham Palace via cesarean section when Elizabeth was still a princess.
King Charles broke with tradition several times in his youth, attending school instead of being privately tutored, as was the norm for the royal family at the time. He also became the first royal to earn a university degree at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read archaeology and anthropology. He later joined the Royal Air Force before becoming the Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester in July 1958. His investiture took place on July 1, 1969, when he was crowned by his mother in Caernarvon, Wales.
Let’s take a look at some of King Charles’s more unconventional demands and daily routines.
Even before his ascension to the throne, King Charles III was known by his staff to have very particular requests and habits. In the 2015 Amazon Prime documentary “Serving the Royals: Inside the Firm,” Paul Burrell, a former butler to the late queen and Princess Diana, revealed that the then prince had “everything done for him.”
“His pajamas are pressed every morning, his shoelaces are pressed flat with an iron, the bath plug has to be in a certain position, and the water temperature has to be just tepid,” in a bathtub filled “only half full,” Burrell disclosed.
He added the new king even “has his valets squeeze one inch of toothpaste onto his toothbrush every morning.”
As for food, Charles has stuck to a primarily healthy diet with some unusual quirks. In the same documentary, a former member of the royal staff, chef Graham Newbould said: “Prince Charles has a healthier option. He’d have homemade bread, a bowl of fresh fruit, fresh fruit juices.”
“Wherever the Prince goes in the world, the breakfast box goes with him. He has six different types of honey, some special mueslis, his dried fruit and anything that’s a bit special that he is a bit fussy about.”
Meanwhile, the king’s former press secretary Julian Payne told The Mirror the monarch habitually skipped lunch, preferring a walk instead.
“The king doesn’t eat lunch; so, an early lesson I learnt when out on the road with him was to have a big breakfast or bring a few snack bars with you to keep you going.
“The working day is pretty relentless. Beginning with the radio news headlines and a breakfast of seasonal fruit salad and seeds with tea.”
Even more surprising is the extremely precise and uncommon way his biscuits are prepared.
Like so many of us, King Charles is fond of biscuits but, unlike so many of us, prefers his sweet treats warm, a royal household insider revealed to MyLondon (keep in mind that British biscuits can be a tad different from what somebody in the US would expect!).
“Prince Charles enjoys cheese and biscuits at the end of many of his meals. Since he’s particular about everything, he insists that they be a certain temperature. The staff keeps a warming pan just to make sure they are hot enough for his liking,” the source revealed.
Meanwhile, Charles also has a penchant for traveling heavy, making sure to have certain furniture and other items sent before him, according to the royal family tell-all “The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor – the Truth and the Turmoil” written by Tina Brown, who was good friends with Princess Diana. Brown revealed the king takes many personal items along with him on his travels, including his “bed, furniture and even pictures.”
Brown’s book disclosed that former senior valet Michael Fawcett oversaw the litany of items brought along during the then prince’s travels, which included an “orthopedic bed, lavatory seat, and Kleenex Velvet lavatory paper, plus two landscapes of the Scottish Highlands.” Again breaking with tradition, King Charles reportedly eschews the royal household’s official supplier of toilet paper, Andrex, and prefers Kleenex Velvet.
Having lived his entire life being waited on hand and foot, it’s no surprise the king is a stickler for perfection. This was highlighted in another viral video in which an uncooperative pen rubbed the royal the wrong way. After asking his aides for the date and discovering he had written it wrongly while signing a book, he then got upset after the pen he was using began to leak, saying “I can’t bear this bloody thing! What they do every stinking time.”
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